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| It is morally reprehensible to use any portion of an individual adult, baby, fetus, embryo, or zygote in any testing of medication which are based solely off of empty promises not founded in factual science and aimed at swaying public opinion toward creating loopholes in laws which do nothing more but fill the pockets of the morally lacking businesses which feed off of the suffering. Using an aborted fetus or components derived from an aborted fetus in the creation of a medicine encourages the complete diregard and devaluation of Human life. It in effect creates a subclass of human life, the unwanted fetus/baby. Some may disregard this statement as pro-life, religious rhetoric, but I assure you that I am not looking at this from a religious zealot's point of view. My angle of approach on this subject comes simply from one question...How many cells constitute a human life? Clearly define the point at which life begins as the point at which a breathing child leaves its mothers womb, and I will abandon my thoughts that abortion is wrong. However, with advancements in medical care in the field of obstetrics, a child which was considered a lost as a premature birth 10 years ago would be saved today with little trouble. At some point in our future, an artificial womb will be created and children which today are seen as unwanted and who are easily discarded will be born and be able to grow outside of the womb starting at conception. Looking at the future with optimism toward an artificial womb or promising theoretical cures (which are fifty years or more away) to those suffering today are on opposite side of this issue, and I would rather have engineers creating true hope for our future than scientists offering hope to their pharmaceutical stock portfolios.
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