Posted by
Duffbert on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:45:27 PM
The mad scientists at Newcastle University in England are at it,
creating a 99% human embryo that lived for 3 days. The purpose of these experiments playing God are to create new embryonic stem cell lines for use in curing diseases. Let's just assume, for the sake of argument that there was proven promise in embryonic stem cells, regardless of the fact that to date more success has come from adult stem cells, and
pluripotent cell reprogramming renders the harvesting of embryonic stem cells irrelevant. My question is more basic than that. How do you measure that an embryo is only 99% human? What human % is acceptible to use for medical experimentation (ala. Dr. Joseph Mengele)?
In my book, performing medical experiments on humans of any percentage is wrong.
To quote Dr. Suess, "A person's a person, no matter how small..."