Kathy Lynn Grossman asks in today’s USA Today Faith and Reason blog,
Would you let your embryos — left over in a clinic freezer from your efforts to have a child — languish on ice forever, be discarded or be used by medical researchers looking for ways to cure dread diseases?
Why, yes of course, Ms. Grossman, important question. I think they’re stuffed right next to that frozen grouper Uncle Fred caught last year in Tarpon Springs and behind the frozen peas, gosh darn it Helen, where are those embryos?
The callousness by which Ms. Grossman asks the question, as if human embryos were only like so much frozen food that I must, must simply and finally something do good with them (enter happy white-coated lab types) rather than let them languish (Freudian slip?–they’re not human, Ms. Grossman, right?) or be discarded like icky ice-crystal-covered-somethings that I see every day in my freezer at home, is simply appalling.
Thankfully, Ms. Grossman’s blog is “conversational.” Read this cathartic answer by commenter mlfranciskus (6 comments down; edited):
No, I would force millions of them to be implanted thru Obama’s mandatory volunteerism program and in 20 years we would have a whole new tax base.
Delightful!
