When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
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There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.
Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.
Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.
If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded.
Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
There are many alternatives to embryonic stem cell research, alternatives with great potential. We need to support these and oppose creating life for the sole purpose of destroying it.
Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.
I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.
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