lus embryos produced from in vitro fertilization and aborted fetal tissue . The problem with this is that for the stem cells to be "harvested" the embryo must die. Another issue in controversy is that these cells are used in therapeutic cloning meaning that the embryos are cloned so that so that a larger source of cells could be provided. In this case life is merely being created to be eventually destroyed for our own purposes . From a Catholic perspective all life is sacred and therefore this research is equivalent to murder and therefore must be stopped. Yet even from a more detached view the rewards are not worth the prize. The embryo is a growing human being, to say that its acceptable for it to die because they were going to be discarded anyways is unacceptable. We can experiment with human tissue but not with human beings, for the same reason that one doesn't perform al sorts of experiments on an inmate in death row. An adult is more evolved than a child but they both hav
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