stem-cell research Options

[smile4me]

do you support stem-cell researching? why or why not?
should federal funding be given to these researchers?
do you support embryonic or adult stem cells (or both)?

[ghetosmurph]

and ghettosmurf, the embryos being used do NOT have the potential to live because they don't have a womb to be implanted into to make them living.

Lets see here you have 12 items to choose from, until you chose 1 they all have the exact same potential.... therefore they all have the same potential to live, just because 1 is chosen and is given the oppertunity to live, that dosen't mean the others do not have the potential....... elementary my dear

now kiddies, let's go over the qualifications for organisms to be living things:

Living things are made of cells.
Living things obtain and use energy.
Living things grow and develop.
Living things reproduce.
Living things respond to their environment.
Living things adapt to their environment.

i've bolded the characterstics an embryo has without the help of a host womb. embryos do not obtain and use energy (or food). embryos cannot grow and develop without a host. embryos cannot reproduce themselves. embryos do not have the capability to respond or adapt to their environment.

now, for an organism to be considered a living thing, it must have all of those characteristics. therefore, an embryo in a petri dish is not even close to being considered living.

and if we take away you food, water and air, the conditions you need to live, you would die....
if we take away the nourishment and environment of the womb, the conditions an embyo needs to live, it will die too, which it dose.... and in which case, you are correct, it is no longer living. what happened to it is the same as what happens to you when you are suffocated, dehydrated, and starved all at the same time, also could be compared to taking a fish out of water. If you take away what it needs to live it dies. However for the fish ther are a few minutes where it is still alive, and for you a few seconds before you black out before you cannot breathe. there is also a time where the embryo is stil alive looking for the conditions it needs which are supposed to be there when it forms..... it is the time in which they put the 1 back into the mother and leave the 11 others to die...... so yes they are alive for a time, but like anything else living, whithout what they need they die........

and ghettosmurf, the embryos being used do NOT have the potential to live because they don't have a womb to be implanted into to make them living.

Lets see here you have 12 items to choose from, until you chose 1 they all have the exact same potential.... therefore they all have the same potential to live, just because 1 is chosen and is given the oppertunity to live, that dosen't mean the others do not have the potential....... elementary my dear

now kiddies, let's go over the qualifications for organisms to be living things:

Living things are made of cells.
Living things obtain and use energy.
Living things grow and develop.
Living things reproduce.
Living things respond to their environment.
Living things adapt to their environment.

i've bolded the characterstics an embryo has without the help of a host womb. embryos do not obtain and use energy (or food). embryos cannot grow and develop without a host. embryos cannot reproduce themselves. embryos do not have the capability to respond or adapt to their environment.

now, for an organism to be considered a living thing, it must have all of those characteristics. therefore, an embryo in a petri dish is not even close to being considered living.

and if we take away you food, water and air, the conditions you need to live, you would die....
if we take away the nourishment and environment of the womb, the conditions an embyo needs to live, it will die too, which it dose.... and in which case, you are correct, it is no longer living. what happened to it is the same as what happens to you when you are suffocated, dehydrated, and starved all at the same time, also could be compared to taking a fish out of water. If you take away what it needs to live it dies. However for the fish ther are a few minutes where it is still alive, and for you a few seconds before you black out before you cannot breathe. there is also a time where the embryo is stil alive looking for the conditions it needs which are supposed to be there when it forms..... it is the time in which they put the 1 back into the mother and leave the 11 others to die...... so yes they are alive for a time, but like anything else living, whithout what they need they die........

sorry, computer went haywire and sent me back to what i had just typed and so i posted again not knowing my origional had gone through