Biological waste, that is what they call tissue that is removed during surgery. The surgery involved can be the excision of a tumor, the removal of undesired "vanity tissue", or the surgery to remove an unborn fetus while attempting to resolve complications dealing with the birth mother or to remove a naturally aborted pregnancy.
Some of these same tissues, labeled as "biological waste", are now in a midst of a pseudo religious, vaguely ethical, and all too political debate. Yes, the tissue derived from the unborn fetus, where the so called "embryonic stem-cells" are thought to reside, is that selfsame "biological waste" that is seemingly offending the sanctity of life.
So the question is simple really. If we have already classified and qualified these tissues as "biological waste" and given them up for loss, would it not be in support of the ideal of sanctity of life if we were able to retrive biologically relevant information from these "biological waste" tissues? Would it not be in support of the ideal of sanctity of life if we were able to eventually distill potentially life saving medicines from these marked for destruction "biological waste" tissue?
