Replies to post #6492 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[mainehiker]

thanks brainless. and on the spontaneous abortions...
well it would be not be playing God to bring those babys to term by using medical science you suggest...
But it would be playing God though to learn how to SAVE, CURE AND EXTEND QUALITY of life thru the research that embryonic stem cell therapy may bring one day. I'm thankful for the moral ones, such as Mr Bush and theologians, that they have decided this research is unethical...can't go helping people WALKING THE EARTH NOW, can we. Need to keep those frozen embryos in suspended animation, its ok to flush them down the drain though you realize, see, as the moral religious ones can decide what's a good death and what isn't. Matthew Shepards death was a good one, so they say.

[mlsoft]

brainlessone...

Are those serious questions???

"mlsoft 30 % of all conceptions abort spontaneously, mostly during the first trimester. Do you differentiate between spontaneous and non spontaneous death of the fetus?"

I assume by "non-spontaneous", you mean abortion. If so, how could one not make a distinction between the two.

"It has recently been found that implantantation and fetal growth is controlled by certain sugars and their receptors available on the lining of the womb and on the egg. It is also thought that correction of these sugar/receptor interactions will decrease the number of aborted yet perfectly fertilized eggs. If this medical therapy is instituted, does this mean that doctors are playing god by not allowing what would otherwise abort?"

No more so than a doctor that saves a life by giving antibiotics to someone with an infection. Of course not.

mlsoft

[goodluck]

<< If this medical therapy is instituted, does this mean that doctors are playing god by not allowing what would otherwise abort?>>
When Cotton Mather (I'm pretty sure it was him, anyway) first started to do vaccinations against smallpox, there was a great fuss raised in Boston among some of their fundamentalists, who maintained that vaccinations, if they worked, would interfere with the will of God as to who would or would not get the disease. This was around the 1720s, I believe, and the argument was made throughout the 18th century. And of course, a few denominations still make some version of it.