Christopher Smith Save Life Summary

Rushil Rawal

Professor Mattson

English 1A

24 September 2015

Christopher Smith Analysis: Save a life, Save an Embryo

Envision if your underdeveloped child was killed and kept frozen for a group of scientists

to perform stem cell research. There are many cases in which embryos are being used for stem

cell research. Currently, innocent embryos are being frozen and eventually killed for the purpose

that their one hundred and fifty cells will be used to create any type of cell for the future use of

human bodies. Killing embryos is simply dejected and vicious. In fact, United States

Representative, Christopher Smith, a senior member of the United States House Committee on

Foreign Affairs, apprises an inconsolable anecdote about

Christopher Smith asserts that there are many cultures that

believe embryos should be immolated, but in evaluation, it is morally wrong. Through the use of

logic, Smith apprises how it is clear if embryos are killed because of their cells, it is not a benefit

for people, but is a loss for a family that could have spent a time in their life with that embryo. In

Smith's perspective, it is illogical how civilization can execute embryos that do not affect people,

but provide people with the means to create new families.

From beginning to end, Christopher Smith addresses logical reasoning in his article,

“Perils and Promise: Destroy an Embryo, Waste a Life.” Smith wants people to know that

destroying embryos is taking the happiness away from human beings. There are programs such

as the Snowflakes program, acknowledged in Christopher Smith's article, that allow embryos to

be placed for adoption with any of the “infertile couples waiting to begin families of their own”

(Smith 4). The Snowflakes program extensively researches on stem cells and understands how

embryos are an important part of human development. In fact, the website Nightlight

Embryonic stem cell research is harming society in a systematic fashion, which Smith is

indirectly apprising. If humans cannot interact with one another and do not get the opportunity to

live as embryos, then why are we performing embryonic stem cell research in the first place?

Many sources believe that embryonic stem cell research will allow people to learn about the

“complex events that occur during human development,” (“Stem Basics” para. 1). On the other

hand, Christopher Smith informs that killing embryos on the basis on science will ultimately

cause “all [of] life [to be portrayed as] devalued” (Smith 10). Smith states that if living

organisms such as embryos are killed, the worth of human beings will decrease due to the fact

that scientific studies will progress as living things are killed for studies. If there are other ways

of doing stem cell research, as Christopher Smith mentions, then why should we kill abnormal

human beings who have not done any harm to us? As some references state, “embryos are stem

cells....these cells begin to differentiate and become heart, liver [and other tissues in the