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IVF Debate

The reality is that there is no right a wrong way to bring a child into this world. Who knows, whenever you are out in public, you might run into someone who was conceived through the use of IVF, but you will not notice because nothing went wrong with their development. They are just like you and I; Human. The memories of those parents will remain there, but they will remember the joy that child brought them, not the pain. The process is actually quite simple when you take a close look at it. First , the woman is given a daily dose of hormones to stimulate follicle production and to signal to the body to start releasing eggs. Second, comes the extraction of the eggs by micro pipettes, which are then mixed with sperm from the father to begin forming embryos. They are left to incubate, and a few days to a week later, they identified as having a serious chromosomal issue or not. The healthy ones are implanted, with the rest of the healthy ones being frozen, and the unhealthy ones being disposed of properly. The woman is given more hormones to encourage the growth of the uterus lining, and the embryos are implanted. A few months later, a child is either born, or the pregnancy never happens. The process can then be repeated or stopped whenever they want. Again, the chance of it being successful is not the best, but the first mobile phone did not have wireless connection. Over time, the procedure will get better, safer, and cheaper than it ever was before. To quote a movie about choosing genes, "life finds a way", and with this procedure, we are giving parents the chance to have a child that they otherwise would not get. Who knows, maybe test tube babies, as you called them, will become the next fad, or maybe even artificial wombs. Every thing starts from somewhere, and artificial reproduction has to start from something. This will one day be the key to a healthier world, with no disorders or genetic diseases. All we can do is wait.
IVF Debate

Those new seeds won't be able to replace the memories that were created with the first child. A human life is something that is just simply irreplaceable. If people were to put in mind that there would always be a backup child waiting for them, wouldn't the present child just lose his or her importance? Those embryos that are being frozen and kept away, what are the chances of them developing issues while awaiting for them to be used? If the parents do decide to not have more children, those embryos would just be thrown away. Life would just be thrown away. Imagine each couple reproducing eight children on one single birth, imagine what would happen to the world's population. Population nowadays often arises complications due to land and/or food sources and what if giving birth to that many children was made possible? In the past, genocides occurred due to the desire to lower down the population of those who were unwanted. Overpopulation may and would trigger that idea of killing thousands or maybe even millions of people once again.
IVF Debate

Yes there is a limit to how many embryos that the human body can support. The reason that many are prepared in advance is in case the first fertilization fails, and the parental units still want to try for a child. The rest are frozen for future use, and some are even given to parents who can not have children naturally. The number for most IVF pregnancies use lower counts of eggs, such as 2-3, which will not put too much strain on the woman's body. If this round fails, then they come back to have another round of eggs implanted, all the way until they are finished with the eggs collected from the first trial. They can choose to stop, or continue with the same process in a hope to have a child. As for the frozen eggs, one can compare them to seeds, as they are preserved for future. Please do not regard this statement as calling children crops, all I am trying to say is that if the pregnancy is successful, but something still happens to end the child's life, like if the child is born, but dies because of a car accident, the parents can try again, like seeds for the future. The amount of eggs able to be implanted into the human body is already regulated, especially after a certain mother had 8 eggs implanted, which all survived to labor, and are still alive today. The amount of strain placed on the body during normal birth is immense. Imagine feeling that 8 times. This is the reason that it has high regulation, as to protect the woman's life.
IVF Debate

So, Science is trying to achieve perfection. Imagine if this whole new technological development leads to recreating a human being so perfect that they may be used to start cloning a whole army. That would be such a great disaster for mankind. Point taken that chances of chromosomal abnormalities would decrease, however, in a news article from the The Telegraph, it states that test-tube babies are at greater risk in health defects like heart problems and digestive abnormalities compared to those who were naturally born. Nothing in this world can be completely sterilized, so there are chances that a microorganism may inhabit the embryos and sometimes may worsen the female's pregnancy. Going back to the number of embryos developed in the petri dish, the legal number of embryos that are allowed to be implanted in the uterus is a maximum of five to prevent excessive births, so what happens to the extra embryos that were formed? They'll just be thrown away? Majority of the world populations are Christians who believe that once a sperm and egg joins together, it's a new beginning of life. Even other religions respect that idea so those embryos that were believed to be a "reject" would just be thrown away. Seeing it in the eyes of those who believe that it's a beginning of life shows murder just like abortion. If the embryos aren't thrown away, and were all implanted in the female's womb, and all were fertile, that would lead to a few birth defects due to the lack of some nutrients. A woman has her own limit and too much may just kill her.
IVF Debate

You speak of diseases, and how we should spend the time used in In Vitro Fertilization to cure them. But imagine if we could stop the disease before it is even prevalent in the child. By using genetic screening on the embryos, we can identify which ones have the chromosomal abnormalities. Based on Advanced Fertility, an average of 50% of embryos have some genetic abnormality such as an extra chromosome, which could lead to down syndrome. A good reason for this is the advancement of the human race by taking out the bad genes from the gene pool. It could also end up helping the parents by removing the possibility of heart break when their child passes on because of complications. This would just up the chances of raising a perfectly healthy child, which is what every parent want. You also mention the orphans, which supposedly spend their whole lives in the orphanage. This is not the case, as they leave when they are 18. The cost to adopt one is almost double that of IVF, so if the parent would rather choose between their own flesh and blood, or for a child they barely know, they would choose their child before others
IVF Debate

Yes, a child can bring their parents happiness and laughter in exchange of their tender loving care. However, think about the orphans. The orphans sure can bring happiness and light in their adoptive parents lives. If this development and research goes on, what's going to happen to those orphans? Are they going to just grow up and die at the orphanage houses without being given the chance to be cared for? They may not be blood related to the couple, however, once they get to know them, they would totally forget about the fact that they are adopted. They would treat them and love them as their own and this new technology would take that chance away from those orphans. IVF technology also gives the parents and doctors the power to play God. Reproduction of a new human life is a miracle. It shouldn't be taken for granted by science or by anyone else. Their time spending on developing test tube humans should instead be spent on finding the cure for other diseases. Also this technology is lowering the position of human kind. What used to be a miracle of life can now be easily made in test tubes and that pretty much lowers the humanity's value in this universe.
IVF Debate

Just as every other subject in science, there is always risks in the beginning. As such, there is always a slight chance of failure when it comes to having a pregnancy using in Vitro fertilization. But, this being a relatively knew technology, it will always advance, getting better, as well as more successful. The statistic is true, however, it is per cycle, which is why at the beginning of this process, multiple eggs are taken, so that there can be more than one cycle available, successful pregnancy or not. As for the cost, nothing can be done at the moment, but again, technology always moves forward. Just as phones once cost roughly 4000 USD at the time of release, the price will go down to it costing a few hundred dollars, especially as methods become more effective, and the medications for the process to start become cheaper. But, for most parents, the cost is always justified. It cost 245,340 USD (based on a 2013 government report) to raise a child from birth to the age of 18. What are a few thousand dollars added to this cost if it all adds up to a massive amount. A child is an investment, but you need to put something in to get something out. A child will bring their parents happiness and laughter, a long with a massive amount of pride if their child is successful or not. To them, it was worth every penny.
IVF Debate

Study of life has always been a 50/50 for everyone, so there will be no 100% assurance that anyone can be parents any time they want. Just like natural birth, failures do occur. According to American Pregnancy Association, it states that In Vitro Fertilization never had a success rate of over 45%. IVF also costs between $12,000 to as high as $20,000 for the complete process and may have to spend more if the first process fails. The hopeful parents already went through too much due to being infertile so having to go through another failure of becoming pregnant after spending thousands and thousands of dollars would totally ruin them completely emotionally and mentally. Ever since the beginning of the human race, reproduction has always been done the 'natural' way. Human population grew from hundreds of people to as high as 7 billion people. To think as at least 100,000 people worldwide die a day, human birth is estimated to be three times more than the death rates. The orphan rates worldwide ranges around 20 million children. All of those children would love to have parents to adopt and care for them and the whole idea of IVF would completely take that dream away from them.
IVF Debate

In Vitro fertilization has many benefits for a wide variety of people. There is more of a chance for a child, that anyone has the chance to have, Outside circumstances such as low sperm count are invalidated, and it is much quicker to have children than having a child the traditional way. People might undergo IVF if their spouse has a low sperm count, or if they have a low fertility rate, because the chance of rearing a child the normal way has such a small probability that it seems impossible. A few other reasons are that doctors can identify if anything is seriously wrong with the embryo, and as such, will only choose the best eggs to implant into the mother. The rest of the eggs can be frozen so they can be used later. As a result of the freezing it also lets the couple have children, even after the mother has gone through menopause, meaning that they can give rise to a child at any time they wish, so when they have time for it, they can have a healthy child. Leaving behind the standard definition of parents, these spare fertilized eggs can also be used with couples that have no possibility what so ever to have children. Because of multiple eggs, there is a higher chance of the pregnancy reaching completion, in a much safer way. I will say this again: with this method, anyone can be a parent at the time that they choose.
Christians are zombies!!!

if Jesus existed he wasnt a son of god, cuz humans are not fictionWe cannot (in my opinion) definitively answer the question of Jesus's divinity, so I'll leave this fallacy alone. social pressure, or a tiger of assumptions can make some on supress their truth, make them sleep, also people dont know to many answers generally, these are ways they can kill you.. but stupidity or pressure is certainly involved, forcing their make belief on people, eating them alive, like they do with their children in most cases, murder.. this is also why i think christianit should be banned from the world, same with islamYou're certainly entitled to your opinion, but we are debating whether Jesus and all Christians are zombies. However, I actually do agree with you that through history religion was forced upon unwilling victims. healing can be percieved as killing, and killing can be percieved as healing, its true no christian ever made any blind man see, while its also true christians did convert people to christianity beforeJesus was (supposedly) Christian, so this disproves the assumption that no Christian has ever made a blind man see. I referenced this in my earlier argument. Your case that healing can be perceived as killing and killing as healing isn't wrong, but the only references to this I see relate to Nazi campaigns (Aktion T4) to force euthanasia on individuals deemed unfit for continued life. In my quick scan, I saw no references to Christianity or the Bible. Jesus is created out of fiction, the son of the fiction writer This seemingly argumentum ex culo has no bearing on the discussion at hand. If Jesus is fiction, as you have repeatedly claim, why debate as to whether he and his followers are zombies?the bible says dont eat the blood, i have given the blood for you to eat at the alter.. something like thatthey put a little cracker thing on your tongue and give you wine, this represents blood and flesh of JesusThis references the last supper in which Jesus gave his disciples bread and wine which was supposed to represent the blood of Jesus. The consumption of human blood or flesh has never been documented, probably because it is absolutely not true.
Christians are zombies!!!

"Jesus is a zombie virus, christians are the infected" the bible says Jesus was real, like it says the earth was created 6000 years ago if Jesus existed he wasnt a son of god, cuz humans are not fiction well consider that part, about a female getting pregnant without having sex.... social pressure, or a tiger of assumptions can make some on supress their truth, make them sleep, also people dont know to many answers generally, these are ways they can kill you.. but stupidity or pressure is certainly involved, forcing their make belief on people, eating them alive, like they do with their children in most cases, murder.. this is also why i think christianit should be banned from the world, same with islam healing can be percieved as killing, and killing can be percieved as healing, its true no christian ever made any blind man see, while its also true christians did convert people to christianity before Jesus is created out of fiction, the son of the fiction writer the bible says dont eat the blood, i have given the blood for you to eat at the alter.. something like that they put a little cracker thing on your tongue and give you wine, this represents blood and flesh of Jesus ---------------------------------------------- some definitions.. will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief and in fictional stories) held to have died and been supernaturally reanimated b : the supernatural power that according to voodoo belief may enter into and reanimate a dead body 2 a : a person held to resemble the so-called walking dead; especially : automaton b : a person markedly strange in appearance or behavior belief is automation, beliefs are habbits.. and beliefs inform actions Another definiton: the body of a dead person given the semblance of life, but mute and will-less, by a supernatural force, usually for some evil purpose.
Christians are zombies!!!

"Jesus said, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: (Jn. 11:25)" Jesus represents what replaces or takes over the truth in you or somehting.. that is human, jesus reincarnated, created out of fiction, the son of god or the son of the fiction writer, to take a serisouly stupid persons body They are following their telepathic killer idol, and see it as healing.. but they dont heal the blind, they make the seeing go blind by belief, and pecieve it as healing Christ=see returning rise form.. christian=see returning rise form i unknown.. so jesus is a zombie virus, and christians are the infected.. they drink human blood and eat human flesh at the alters in their churches this is only somewhat accurate.. didnt really take the time to correct it
Yo-kai inspirit us making us sin and Arceus stops them so we can be peaceful

Arceus in in this world. He's turned himself invisible while he fights the Yo-kai. I'm the only one who knows his existence because I'm his close friend and he only trusts me. You say Arceus dies by Hydro Pump but Arceus has been fighting for many centuries. Yo-kai have been here since before the Holocaust. How else do you explain Hitler's violent acts? Rageon made him angry. Yo-kai inspirit us and they're everywhere. You can't see them but Arceus can, and he's also invisible because he'd get in the way of our otherwise peaceful lives. You don't believe original truth or fake truth because it's not real truth. Only Arceus knows real truth and original truth. He does not require worship because he's humble and doesn't need it. We must be cautious of the Yo-kai all around us. Before you know it, we'll be cold this summer because Frostina is coming.
Yo-kai inspirit us making us sin and Arceus stops them so we can be peaceful

Arceus is a Pokemon. Arceus was caught by a kid. Arceus now lives under a strict diet of Poke-chow and is chained up at Brandon's backyard every night because Brandon's mom doesn't like Arceus sitting on the couch. Arceus died at level 76 due to a Hydro Pump by a Blastoise. Then there's also the fact that Arceus is fiction.
Yo-kai inspirit us making us sin and Arceus stops them so we can be peaceful

Yo-kai are in this world, and they're inspiriting everyone to make them act certain ways. There's evidence throughout history proving this religion. The only true god is Arceus. He doesn't need worship, as he's humble. He turned himself invisible to he can eliminate the yo-kai that inspirit people. He's invisible because he doesn't want to disrupt our lives with his grace and holiness. He knows where all yo-kai are, and he's stopping them as we speak.I am the only true follower of Arceus. He told me everything he knows. Let's debate only truth.
Is atheism illogical

I myself was an agnostic for a while, so I am just pointing out a few inconsistencies. I will be arguing that 1. Morality cannot exist via a Naturalist perspective. This does not mean Atheists cannot be moral if morality exists, but instead that a naturalist reality negates all metaphysical realities, including ethical or moral absolutes.2. You cannot be a pure Atheist. This will be argued both from an empiricist and rationalist perspective. You cannot really make the truth statement that there is no God.3. Atheism is based on a faulty epistemology. I will argue that from a naturalistic perspective, you cannot find absolute truth using the tools most commonly asserted as absolute by many Atheists, specifically scientism. I look forward to my opponent's arguments in the next round.
Parthenogenetic stem cells are not embryos.

It seems that my opponent has fixed his entire premise on his understanding that a human embryo created by way of "parthenogenesis" can not result in a "viable embryo" in humans.The biological fact is that it already is a human being even in the first days of it's life. If it is alive, it must be somewhat able to remain so for at least a little while and to that extent it's viability is somewhat relative to it's condition.. If it were completely non viable, it would already be dead.So, let's not fool ourselves, we are speaking of a human individual organism that genetically engineered to die sooner rather than later. It's still a human being and for that reason alone, I support the bans for use of federal dollars to fund such research on them.My opponent Posted:"SCNT is considerably different from parthenogenesis, most notably in that SCNT results in a full set of chromosomes taken from an adult cell while parthenogenesis only results in a half set (only inheriting the half from the egg and without the complimenting half from the sperm)."My opponent is only partially correct with this assertion. In Parthenogenesis, yes any young from an egg that does not undergo meiosis will remain "haploid" and will not live very long.However, it is worth nothing that a genetically defective "Young" of a parent is still the "young" of his or her parent. We are still talking about lab created HUMAN beings same as we would be talking about a non defective child created for the purposes of Invitro fertilization for example. The articles my opponent cites do not explain how stem cells from a haploid human embryo created by way of "Parthenogenesis" can suddenly switch to beings cells with a full chromosome count, for use to say replace nerve cells or heart muscle, etc. But I digress.My opponent closed with the following remark; "Parthenogenesis should not be included on the congressional definition of an embryo because, as I have shown, it cannot create a human life. Therefore, stem cells created from parthenogenesis should not be restricted under the Federal research ban."To which I must point out that the egg cell manipulated to behave like a "parthenogenic" embryo most certainly is an embryo. Just as are those which occur in naturally in certain reptiles, plants and fish. My opponent says that these "embryos" can not "create human life" even as he ignores that they themselves already ARE 'human lives.'They are genetically defective. TrueThey are destined to die (we all are). Also trueBut they are human beings in the earliest stages of their lives, regardless.Please vote Con if you agree and oppose the use of Federal dollars to fund research on this form of genetic experimentation on lab created human beings.