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Brown Criticised over embryo bill

The Church are kicking up about it, the scientists involved say the research is a requirement, the Government are squabbling.

Are the Church just doing a bit of scare mongering when they talk of “Frankenstein” or do the scientists have a point ?

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I'm a bit stuck with this one, can see the research could maybe help with serious illnesses but just wonder if the scientists are quite as open about exactly how far they go with research.

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like bernie this is one area i aint too sure about, its all about will the plusses outweigh the minuses? i just dont know, leaning very slightly against.:confused:

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was it alder hey they took body parts from bodies without asking the relatives? differant thing i know,but the same in principal.

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Yes it was Cashy leading to bereaved parents having to have more than one funeral. Think it is stories like that which cause people to be wary of this sort of research. I also think that we are going just that bit to far, not sure that knowledge is always a positive thing if you know what I mean.

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We already have animal-human hybrids.
Have you never been to Burnley? ;)

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Naughty:p....

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for anything like this,there has to be complete "Trust" in the government who authorise it. i would find it very difficult to do that, they cant even look after folks personal details.:( would also find it difficult to trust any other government.

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But putting the goverment to one side would you have complete faith in the researchers?

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ya can't put the goverment to one side, at the end of the day,they will authorise n regulate it, n with their record which aint great,it will give any dodgy researcher, the oppertunity to play god thats how i see it.

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mm its a toughie - there arent any real details to be able to decide what is actually going to happen whrere are they going to get embryos from which animals etc

and i would like to know when they did the public consultaion

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I watched with both interest and grave concern on a number of levels, the spot SkyNews gave to this subject (its on their website).

The moral interests, whilst important, are not the only concern for me. These are to be resolved at individual level and by personal criteria. The other element of concern is the call for MPs to resign should they find their religion in conflict with government policy.

This is clearly an emotive topic, with passionate arguments no doubt for and against, and that appreciated, I would like to look at the abstract - do we elect an MP or look at a government minister for religious moral guidance? Its that age old question of how far religion should interfere with politics and vice versa - ive already made a point in a previous posting as to how the two should avoid each other, well, like the plague.

What happens though, irrespective of political party (and you really must put that at the back of your mind), when a government implements a policy that has religious implications? Should MPs who's religions oppose that policy have to resign if they are part of the government of cabinet that approved it? I would hope not. Politicians, despite the craven views of some, are there to assist in governance, not the promotion or justification of religious values - to take a quote from the "West Wing" as stated by a running Senator, 'Il answer any question on government, but if you have a question about religion, please, go to church'

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to my mind its the same as beastiality , but in place of the village idiot messing with the local sheep now we have called educated scientists in white coats doing it in a lab.

:D :D

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I think Lancsdave must be on holiday or he would have given you some stick by now Neil:rolleyes:
On the subject, I'm totally against this embryo research, no one knows where its going to go. I have recently written to Greg Pope on the subject and he has given me a detailed reply, I only hope there is a free vote in the commons as these things should not be debated on party lines

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Other countries allow this and others don't. The early research has proven to be quite exciting for scientific development and I think, even as a Catholic, that this should be allowed.

If anyone wants to read any interesting articles on this area you should be able to find some on Bionews (type this into google and u should find the website). From what I vaguely remember, they cured a rat/mouse of a severe heart problem with this type of science, so obviously that kind of thing pushes scientists to want this allowed but I wonder too whether it is ethical.

I believe the key legal question in these areas is whether the evil counters a greater evil, and I think this science has the potential to do good, but also possibly do harm.

Either way, the church will only delay this legislation, I don't think they'll be successful in stopping it completely.

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That just about sums it up, but be careful what you say, your heading towards the Church excommunicating you and the animal rights activists burning your house down!

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Sometimes I feel like burning the house down myself. As for the Church excommunicating me. They can force me out of the church if they wish but they can't take away my faith, and with the dwindling numbers of young catholics I think they'd be better to keep schtum.

Besides, the catholic church do sometimes change their views on things. They're accepting homosexuality more and more, contraception is generally seen as ok now, and they don't tut so much at divorce now so long as you don't think your welcome to get married in church a second time :p.

The mouse didn't die, it was cured of a heart problem. I get the feeling in was something to do with cow/human hybrid but who knows, I'm not exactly the best for remembering things. Then again, I doubt the scientists would have told us if it had dropped dead, because that would've been a step back :p better to keep it to themselves.

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I think everyone should get out of their minds the thought of human/animal hybrids. What is proposed is not embryo babies with cloven hooves and a tail etc. This is about using cells that are at a pre-embryo stage and will not develop any further.

We have all read stories such as Frankenstein's Monster and they colour the thinking but this is medical research not megelomania. There have been many controversial events in the history of modern medicine which, if left to the will of the people, would probably never have taken place. Who remembers Christiaan Barnard acheiving the world's first heart transplant? He didn't tell anyone he was going to do it, which was just as well because there were many opponents after the event.

I say the research should go ahead and I say this as someone who is opposed to pregnancy termination. These "embryos" will not be human beings or animals, they will simply be collections of cells.

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Bleedin cheek

Ain't no animal/human hybrids in Burnley, the locals would have eaten em by now..............:rolleyes:

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:rofl38::rofl38:

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There are some things which we are better not to be aware of, this is one of them.

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I am for it personally.
Anything that could help in the prevention or cure of serious illnesses can't be a bad thing surely?
The Embryo isn't human so i don't see what the fuss is about.

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Exactly West Ender .. just get on with it you wonderful scientists and cure some of these awful diseases that are affecting the world. Can't stop science anyway .. who would want to ?? Just all about blood/matter and bone .. just a variation of cells all of us.

Could save us all at some stage from a world wide plague.

Survival of the planet at the end of the day .. b*gger religious intervention .. I trust science against any unproven imaginative religious dreamworlds :mad: