Stem Cell Research, Morals and Religion

[KiteRunner]

Re: Stem Cell Research, Morals and Religion

@Enigmatic

don’t know about age old mystery what I posted was just knowledge of the facts I have studied as genetics really fascinates me. And yes most religious scholars believe that in vitro fertilization is permissible if the donor sperm cell is that of the husband of the infertile patient. It’s the concept of surrogate mothers, donor sperm cells that is not permissible.

So when embryologists take sperm from the husband and ova from the wife they actually create 5-6 fertilized embryos because chances of viability in labs aren’t as good as that inside the womb (again shows Allah’s knowledge and supreme power). But they transfer at the maximum of 3 inside the uterus. The rest are just left there and stored or either discarded. Using those embryos shouldn’t be wrong at all. aahh I think this is getting too techinical

Like I said it’s such an intricate topic with a very very thin line b/w ethical and unethical. And I don’t qualify much to prove that what I said is right.It’s just an opinion.
Limited knowledge
But this is all truly fascinating

But many scholars also say that live begins at the point of fertilisation or the point at which the cells begin to divide, so although I would agree with IVF the fact that embryos (which IMO are living beings) are discarded is wrong.

I would also agree with stem cell research if they used the stem cells from umbilical cords which are almost if not just as good at differentiating as the ones they extract from the embryos. There’s also the stem cells from the bone marrow, albeit not as great but still usable.

Also, stem cell research is still so experimental, they still get it horribly wrong at times so right now it’s not really a viable solution (although there have been quite a few amazing success stories)/