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It's not a child. Even if you want to use a broad definition of child (and I do), this cell was not implanted in a women, and could not grow.

It's one thing to take positive action to stop a child from living (abortion).

It's quite another to simply do nothing. This type of stem cell research is done from cells that would otherwise be thrown out - you have not prevented a child from living.



> It's one thing to take positive action to stop a child from living (abortion)

Until someone creates a fetal transplant procedure it’s really not. You can’t make someone host a baby they don’t want


> it’s really not.

It's really not what? Not a positive action that kills a child?

You have to see a difference between not saving someones life, even though you can, and actually going and killing them.

> You can’t make someone host a baby they don’t want

We are getting offtopic here, but sure you can. We make people take care of their children all the time. If they don't they go to jail for neglect or abuse.


> It's really not what?

It's really not "one thing to take positive action", right. It's no big deal to terminate a fetus. It happens all the time in nature.

> sure you can

No, you cannot make anyone do anything. You can put them in jail, but you can't make them not try to abort. You cannot make them raise a child.

You can punish people, but you can't make them do anything.




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