The Donors Have Spoken

A new survey has found that nearly 60 percent of infertility patients are willing to donate their frozen embryos for use in stem cell research.  This figure is roughly three times the percentage of those who are willing to donate their frozen embryos for adoption.  According to the researcher:

This provides additional support for the stem cell legislation and for how to think about the legislation. This will not change the view of people who hold the position that destroying embryos is immoral and never justifiable. That's a coherent position that these data cannot challenge. But for people who believe that there might be some circumstances in which early human life can be ethically destroyed to achieve another human end, this is important data.