I have the chance to donate one of my eggs for $5000.  What are your opinions on the moral aspect of this .  the eggs will go to couples who are can't have children.  Also how do you feel about surrigate mothers
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That reminds me. I have to turn my eggs before they burn.\nSeriously. I am a strong outspoken Christian, but I don't have a moral opinion on this. I can't find anything against it in the bible.
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I suppose they think it's acceptable because if the government is going to pay them for having babies, why not?  Of course, I do believe that it's unfair to lay all the blame at the women's feet.  No one forces the men not to wear condoms.  It takes two to make a baby and both should be held responsible.\n\nI think that, instead of rewarding people who have all of these illegitimate children, the government should penalize them.  I know that sounds harsh, but the system is being taken advantage of.  I think that people who have no children or one child should be rewarded with a larger tax refund each year. People with two children should get nothing more, but nothing taken away and people with three or more children should be taxed more.  (Of course, if a law like this were passed, I'd say that people who already have three or more should be grandfathered in and be viewed as people who have two children.)
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hopfully, the sperm banks are still in one peace and also one of the guys can preform a uturine transplant operation on the other guys. we would need a much larger gene pool to work from. i would be happy to assist in the operating room and hold heads as they puke in the first trimester. we women have plenty of eggs to go around for them.
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I am so for stem cell research.  Maybe it's because I have Multiple Sclerosis and am tired of all the treatments.  Think about this:  if I go for fertility treatment and they harvest eggs from me and develop embryos that would be implanted in my uterus for in-vitro and it works the first time, shouldn't I be allowed to donate the rest of them that have been frozen?  Or is it better to leave them frozen, or have them discarded?  I mean they're either contributing to finding a cure for serious diseases or they're going in the trash.  \n\nThe majority of people against it cite reasons that it is not right to create a life only to destroy it.  The majority of those people are christians.  To which I say, according to your beliefs, isn't that God's plan for the earth  is?  So, aren't we just emulating God?  UGH!!
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Well I have 4 kids and I'm a single mother. I can not work at the moment because I can not find proper child care for the two children that don't attend school.( I would love to be working) But here is the deal, Me and my kids are living in a small 2br, 1 ba home, you could donate about $2,500.00 to us so that we can pay the down payment on a new and bigger home. Charity I guess you could say, but I would consider it to be a blessing. Ty   latovat@yahoo.com
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I think this is right...they take your eggs from you...they fertilize them..therefore they become living beings.....then they use these fertilzed eggs for research...they are commiting murder on your children.\nThe bible says life starts at conception.
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I have two awnsers (opinions).\n\n1. Moral values are all messed up. There is not a clear understand of what is really worth in the world. A tree is improtant... very important, but there is no tree inthe world that have more value than a single human life. At the end we are responsible for nature and at the same time nature is ther to serve us. Is a simbiotic relationship. We should protect life and the most important kind of life is the huaman life.\n\n2. Convenience, what is the commitment of saving a tree? And that is the commitment of saving a life of an unwanted child?  People say they can do what ever they want with their bodies ... mmhm supose thats right... What a pregnant woman carries is a totally different human life, an other person, hence and the only think this person wants to do is live, grow, develop in to an independient human been, but this armless, small, and gragile person seems to have their right to do with their bodies what ever they want violated. So.. save a tree?... sure, why not... Save yours baby life? Comit to have a pregnancy and be responsible for a human life?... Well for much people, you know what their awnser is.\n\nSaludos!
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I may not be able to make babies with all these women but can I play with them to? I already play with myself so that is a given. You know it sounds like we should all get together for a big clothing optional party. I'll bring the camcorder so we get all the good times on film. Maybe make a little money on the side. \nLove & Light\nSharon
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I totally agree with you!  Pro-lifers seem to be more concerned about the unborn child than they are about the child (and its mother and/or father) after it is born!  "Okay...I stopped you from having an abortion.  See ya and good luck!  Just don't ask me for money or assistance."  That is one of my problems with the pro-life movement.  It's about wanting to control women.  It has nothing to do with caring about the welfare of the unborn child.  If it did, they would be fighting more for the rights of born children and thier mothers and/or fathers.  Better school, better childcare, etc.\n\nI'm sure if more programs existed to help financially strapped mothers and mothers-to-be, there might be a few less abortions.  I more honestly feel that if birth-control and/or morning after pills were made more readily and easily (ie: over the counter) available to women, there wouldn't be the need for abortions.  An unplanned pregnancy is an unplanned pregnancy, regardless of the money you have in the bank.  Of course, there are those who use abortion as a form of birth-control and, as far as I'm concerned, those women shouldn't breed anyway, but for most women, it's a tough decsion to have to make.  She should be allowed to make that choice on her own, regardless of her situation.  The government and religous groups need to butt out.
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Girl I hear you and I am with you I understand your point. These people don't understand that God made us equal and will judge us equally. He believes in helping out one another. People are just shy-sty and don't care if others live or die as long as they are wealthy. I pray for people like you. Thank you for defending this nation. It does not matter if you are rich or poor when you die that will stay behind and all that will follow are your good and bad. We are supposed to share our food, and help the poor. Obviously these people are not doing that. Amen to you AMEN!!! torresshs04@yahoo.com
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I think perhaps God should make decisions like those. Medical Science is great and all but God has power over all things. Choose your child. From the mother's stand point what better way to die, than by giving another life. Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend. (I think baby relatives count too.) From the father's stand point what better way to show God you totally trust him? A friend of mine was told about six months ago that she should abort her child because he would never breathe on his own, his skull would not be formed,his facial features would be distorted, and the child's brain would be in essence.... dead.Pam and Mike were basically told to kill their unborn child because a medical test "proved" it would be for the best. Rather than putting their faith in medicine they put their faith in God and  today a miracle happened. Pam gave birth to a basically healthly child. He is breathing just fine all by himself, despite some minor physical abnormalities he is a beautiful healthy child. Praise God for this precious life! If Mike would have put his faith in science, or Pam had chosen instead to have her baby aborted because something might be wrong.... well the world would have missed out on this brand new perfect life. The real question is not who can I save? But, in whom can I put my faith? You have no control over life or death, which means YOU can NOT Choose who lives. ie. If the father decides "choose" to abort the child who is to say that during the procedure the mother would not also die? It has happened. an abortion requires a serious, though minimally invasive, surgical procedure.It's called a Dilitation and Curretage more commonly refered to as a D&C.(not only for decicive abortions, a D&C is commonly done on women who have had a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage to prevent uterine infections)I personally have seen (working on a surgical floor) women who have nearly died from complications of this "minimally invasive" procedure.If you put your faith in God he will direct your path.
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That is an interesting view of things.  I have always had an inclination the exact opposite direction, that is, to help my family first, then my town, then state, country, the world.  I'm not saying this is right and the way you are talking about is wrong.  I guess it's just that when I have some money to donate, and I look around, and right there is my own family member who is barely getting by, then how can I let him starve while feeding a stranger?\n\nBut what you are saying is a good philosophy.  For if I were to help the country, then perhaps there would be this "trickle-down" effect to my own family member.  I think there may be something to that.  I just wish I was a billionaire and could help everyone!
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I had a long post here, but I decided to change it. There were lots of details about my personal situation, but now I am going to cut to the point...\n\nYou should report these people to the organizations that are providing these services. As you said, there are people out there who really need help. And it isn't right for these volunteers to be wasting their time... Especially when they could be spending it helping out someone who needs it worse.\n\nYou may want to make sure they know if you want to be kept anonymouse. I have made people mad at me before when I reported them for wasting benefits. But it isn't right when there are people like me, no car and working hard to keep a job, further my education, and raise a kid who really need help but are getting little or none while others, such as the family you mentioned above, are taking more than they need. \n\nThere is enough in this country for everyone to live comfortably, if they would just all do and take their share. Keeping life going the way it should is a balancing act. If there is too much on one side, there isn't going to be enough on the other.
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That is true. For this is reason is why the Catholic Church is agaisnt IVF, they encouraged adoption. You're not gonna receive an honest answer because most people while they abhor abortion they think IVF is wonderful (forgetting that many embryos are destroyed in the process after the woman is pregnant).  Yet, many pro-lifers used IVF when they can't conceive instead of adopting. This shows the hypocrisy of the people at the highest level.
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Ok, I've had to write a similar paper about a zillion times in college, so here's some advice: Write on the positive and negative outcomes it could have such as organ transplant and the possiblity of people trying to sell their own organs for $$$, and how there could be a large black market of organs for sale. This will make a rise in the homocide rate (people killing other people to steal their organs) and because there has not been a lot done w/ stem cell organs, they do not know the longivity of them. Most religious people are aganist it because they think that it will increase abortion. I don't know....Good luck!
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You don't pay for anybodies children now, let alone your own, are you an Alcoholic? I think you should invoke the Anti-Abortion Law, so they can have even more children and be homeless. Support tax cuts for the rich so they can stay homeless, like Katrina. Vote to outsource American jobs to Communist China, while borrowing trillions of American dollars from Communists. So quit bitching about the results of your polices "DUMB-AZZZ"
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I think embryonic stem cell research is wrong.  I am a Christian, have been all my life, and I don't like being stereo-typed because of my religious 'convictions.'  Advocates argue that Christians are against embryonic stem cell research because they, we, think when we die we will have to answer for it.  NEWS FLASH!  I have accepted Christ, I am going to Heaven when I die, and here is the kicker......I won't have to answer for THEIR transgressions!  I think embryonic stem cell is wrong because life does begin at conception.  The argument that it doesn't is just a way for those who end life to feel better about themselves.  You shouldn't be able to harvest humans like potatoes for the sake of research.  Any way you look at it, it's wrong.  No ifs, ands, or buts.  I have a hard time figuring their reasoning.  What it boils down to is that they want to kill babies to cure old people.  End new life to save one that's already been lived.  For what?  To add another 10-15 years to a persons life?  Why?  Like you said, embryonic stem cell research has yielded no results, however, adult stem cell research has been the most promising so far.  I don't have an argument with these practices.  I don't even have an argument with using aborted embryos for research.  I don't believe in abortion, but the US Supreme Court says it is the right of a woman to decide.  If she decides to end her pregnancy, then I believe the embryo can be used for research.  Is this not a good enough compromise?  I have had a great grandmother die from one of those diseases stem cell research promises to cure.  I watched her suffer, held her hand as she passed, but I would never have signed anything that would have her better if I had to kill a baby.  So many people out there would love to be parents, but they can't because of medical or financial limitations.  Democrats want us to sign on for funded programs that allow babies to be killed for research to cure illnesses and diseases.  I don't see any of these people pushing for a federally funded program to help barren women conceive the children they so desparately want.  Are they really trying to help people?