Re: OT Embryonic stem cell research was Re: OT: McCain's religion was

On 25 Mar, 01:58, "Pete Dashwood" <dashw...@removethis.enternet.co.nz>
wrote:
>
> We gladly donate our organs and corneas etc. in the event of accident, so
> that someone we will probably never know can be helped. Should we do any
> less with a fetus that will never know "life" in the full sense of the wor
d,
> not just as an energy process within a cell?
>
> I don't think so. (For myself, I'd gladly donate it to science...)
>
> We should support stem cell research because it will better the human
> condition in the long term.
>

I wonder how many more people would become donors if only would-be
donors were permitted to be recipients of donated organs? Self-
interest might result in a boosting of the donor-pool.