Comments | _pulkritudinous: uhhh wtf did he just say?

_pulkritudinous

uhhh wtf did he just say?

Oct 19, 2005 13:24

Question:

If you would not abort an undeveloped fetus

Why do you not cry every time you have your period?

Question:

If an aborted fetus is going to be thrown in the garbage disposal anyways

What's wrong with stealing a few stem cells?

Question:What's the difference between taking a dead man's liver ( Read more... )

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Read the news! anonymous October 19 2005, 23:41:55 UTC

Apparently they've found a way to extract stem cells w/o "hurting" (if you can call it that) the fetus. Google it.

The religious right can blow me.

-Kris

Re: Read the news! _pulkritudinous October 20 2005, 01:18:38 UTC

Well hey now... There ya go Matty. Can't the fetus regenerate damaged tissues in the first 6 months of the gestation period anyways?

zuckerschnee15 October 20 2005, 16:49:05 UTC

they should stay away from the mouse embryos, or animal testing in general if human embryos are readily accessible. Otherwise it will be so easy for diseases to jump the DNA ladder from one species to another. I mean it's bad enough that syphilus, supposedly originally found in sheep, is now a human disease. We don't need Fido getting chicken pox too.

There was also something in Scientific American a few months ago about the dangers of injecting one species of stem cells into another, and worrying about creating chimeras (3 different animals in one body.)
Basically they should stop doing stuff like this:

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doverstar31 October 20 2005, 18:56:48 UTC

i dont think that the mouse embryo stem cells would transmit disease to humans or make humans more susceptable to diseases becuase a stem cell is a common cell, it's no different in a human or a mouse or any other animal. I read an article about it and they said that they were able to get the mouse embryo stem cells to divide and one was used to test if there were any genetice defects and if there weren't, they would use the other one for research.

zuckerschnee15 October 21 2005, 18:06:48 UTC

I admit I was a little vague earlier. Its not that a stem cell, in its own singular and uncontaminated state that would be dangerous, (and you are right about how stem cells are common to every species,) but the problems start to arise when you consider those situations when human cells are injected into other animals, (or any other species being injected into another,)or the growth of one species' tissues inside another species.

Like a good scholar here's my source:
"The intermingling of tissues could also make it easier for infectious animal diseases to move into humans. Diseases that hop species barriers can be particularly devastating because the immune systems of their new hosts are so unprepared for them (the flu pandemic of 1918 is widely believed to have sprung from an avian influenza virus)" (by John Rennie in the July 2005 Scientific American.)

doverstar31 October 21 2005, 19:19:59 UTC

oh ok, i understand what you meant now, that makes sense.

anonymous October 24 2005, 10:15:27 UTC

muhaha, this made my day. It made my day even better because my friend was reading over my shoulder and freaked out. yesssssss

oh, and PS: i <3 your avatar.
and my mom is being a douche and staying home on friday. But we have the basement, and otuside. we'll just be *giggly*

anonymous October 24 2005, 10:17:09 UTC

^^ oh shit, yeah that was cathy..

anonymous November 2 2005, 02:48:03 UTC

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anonymous November 2 2005, 02:49:29 UTC

some of that is worded wrong but you peoples get the meaning

_pulkritudinous November 2 2005, 22:11:32 UTC

this argument has to have the most holes in it than any other argument i have ever heard in my life.

Q1:
first off, you've strayed from the subject of the matter. I don't care whether the sex was "immoral" or not. and besides, you're forgetting about the thousands of rape victims, and married couples whose birth control fails. i can't really tell exacty what your argument is here, but if you have a problem with giving something life and then taking it away, what if the mother was poor and would have starved the child? would you rather it have developed a brain with nerve endings before she dumped it in the trashcan? what about the trashbag someone ran over on the highway and it ended up having a baby in it. what about the 24 year old girl who put her baby in the trash can?

Q2/3
are you dumb, is all i can say. if i may repeat, you said a stem cell wouldn't do anything for anyone? but a liver would benefit science? i'm deciding whether or not i should even bother explaining this one. Go look up uses of stem cells.... ( ... )

anonymous November 3 2005, 22:44:27 UTC

Sorry about not fully explaining stuff and not wording things right, but you really should have been able to tell what i meant (unless you started with the assumption i was an idiot or you are completely lacking morals)i'll correct what i meant and tell you where you're still wrong ( ... )

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