Anything Not to Destroy Embryos--Even Octo-Mom?
That would appear to be the argument advanced by Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, discussing alternatives to using embryos for stem cell research in a debate with Art Caplan.
Not only does such a claim about the use of excess embryos--look, you can implant them into anybody!--misunderstand why the majority of excess embryos remain in storage and are never implanted into anyone (either to do genetic abnormality or generally being otherwise unsuitable for implantation) or how the "Octo-Mom" case is actually the strongest argument against implanting multiple embryos into a mother, rather than arguing for it.
Click on the link above to watch the interview, though, provided by US News and World Report to see how conservatives are now spinning embryonic stem cell research as "irrelevant" and "research of the past" and using "Octo-Mom" as a moral exemplar for appropriate IVF practice.
Summer Johnson, PhD
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