Gene town

Today as we were walking down Seymour St we walked into a debate where people where debating if you should be able to use Left over embryos for stem cell research on trying to find a cure for diabetes ? And it really got me thinking so here is my opinion on the subject.  

     I personally believe that there is nothing wrong with using left over embryos to try to find a cure for a disease that affects million of people world wide. If you are not using the embryos because the person in need of IVF or the type of artificial insemination they decide to use only one or whatever the case the left over embryos are just going to die anyways so why not use them to try to find a cure or an effective treatment to one of the worlds most popular disease. Although I could understand how some of the council   people were against it because they called it inhumane and said things like " don't use human beings as lab rats , for  your experiments " I cam understand that some people would not be okay with these. I am not one of those people though, but I came up with an idea that could benefit both sides. If you do happen to have left over embryos I think instead of taking them right away and putting them in the labs I think you should discuss it with the parents because some parents would not be okay with it and others would  be okay with giving them up for science. I think that is fair , so really you leave it up to the parents choice. And for the embryos that the parents are not willing to give up you could store them separately, away from the ones that you have the permission to experiment and do tests on. I also support this idea because you are using humans but they aren't like human beings that are adults or children  so you are eliminating the need to do experiments on a living human. You are eliminating the risks , the chance for error that could be deadly. You are able to do all your tests and experiments the way you want to because you would not have to worry about an actual human being with a family, job, a house and other reasons to live you. You aren't harming them. You are just experimenting with an unborn baby that has nothing. It doesn't have any reason to live unlike an adult that you would be using for the research. And finally you are giving the people who do have diabetes hope ! You are giving them the hope that by doing research on the unborn embryos  you might come up with a solution on how to treat diabetes. Therefore I completely support the use of unborn embryos for the use to try and cure or treat diabetes.