Where do the extra human eggs and embryos for cloning and embryonic stem cell research come from?
Many scientists desire to use the extra eggs and embryonic children from IVF clinics. Many IVF clinics take more eggs and make many more embryos than parents need, even when they have the ability to do otherwise. The embryonic stem cell, (ESCR) industry has put a great deal of pressure on IVF clinics to produce more eggs and embryos for their research. Certainly in this situation there is a great deal of money to be made, so one must be cautious to say that the stem cell industry is strictly humanitarian in its desire to use more embryos for obtaining stem cells. There a great deal of money to be made in patenting ESCR, because anything genetically modified can become intellectual property. One of the down sides of investing in Adults Stem Cells is that one cannot make patents on full grown adults, because their own genetic material is their own. http://www.genetics-and-society.org/events/20041209_postelection/newman.html What about the Embryonic Children kept in Cold Storage? What is
