Given some in Missouri want to ban embryonic stem cell research, I’ve already been in the middle of this debate for some time—The Trib picks up on one key issue Democrats will be hitting upon this year.
First Salvo: Roskam’s Choice (WMV file)
500 Personal stories about the potential of stem cell research
One of the more interesting questions with embryonic stem cell research is that many opposed to such research really hate to answer questions about in-vitro fertilization. Ultimately, it has the same effect of allowing excess zygotes to be disposed of if not used. If you are against stem cell research of this kind, it’s only natural to be against IVF. One of many questions you should ask opponents.
Actually, if you’re against ESCR, you only really have to be against IVF *as it’s currently practiced in the U.S.* In other countries (I think Italy and Germany have such rules, for instance), there are regulations against the creation and storage of “excess” embryos.
So Lance Armstrong shouldn’t have been able to have children. Let’s be clear about the examples we are talking about.
Well, I don’t know the specifics of Lance Armstrong’s case, but wouldn’t he have been able to have sperm (not embryos) frozen?