The Stem Cell Research Controversy

Imagine this scenario: Hannah Lee Gavin attends George Mason University, takes a couple night classes and must walk a ways, on the dark, often desolate, path that leads from her car to class. One daunting evening she is abducted, raped, and to her distress impregnated. On the other side of the diminutive town Michael Jefferies is debilitated from Parkinson's disease. Now word of Michael's condition reaches Hannah and she decides to sacrifice her embryo and …

…at the time, is not yet a living human being, one way or another. Yes it does have potential but it is only human nature to strive for survival and if the patient had a severely life threatening disease, then they are not going to think about that potential when this is the only thing that may save their life. A person fighting to live should not be prohibited to live because of the fight.