US Presidency
2001

On the first issue, are these embryos human life well, one researcher told me he believes this five-day-old cluster of cells is not an embryo, not yet an individual, but a pre embryo. He argued that it has the potential for life, but it is not a life because it can not develop on its own. An ethicist dismissed that as a callous attempt at rationalization. Make no mistake, he told me, that cluster of cells is the same way you and I, and all the rest of us, started our lives. One goes with a heavy heart if we use these, he said, because we are dealing with the seeds of the next generation. And to the other crucial question, if these are going to be destroyed anyway, why not use them for good purpose I also found different answers. Many argue these embryos are byproducts of a process that helps create life, and we should allow couples to donate them to science so they can be used for good purpose instead of wasting their potential.