Imagine that those words might actually be uttered one day. It's all true, and it's a disgrace to humanity.
This story discusses how scientists are using aborted babies to grow human eggs.
The notion that children can derive from human matter that has not itself been born sounds the stuff of science fiction. Yet it has moved a step closer with research showing that it is possible to extract ovarian tissue from aborted foetuses for in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment.Scientists announced yesterday that they have been able to remove immature ovaries from four-month-old foetuses. The theory is that they can then be stimulated in the test tube to go through the later stages of development before the creation of fully mature eggs.
But such a scenario raises grave ethical questions about the possibility of creating children whose biological mothers were never born. When a high-powered committee of British ethicists considered this possibility in the early 1990s it took the view that any child created by such a procedure would not be able to come to terms with the idea of deriving from aborted foetal tissue.
This is where the slippery slope is leading us. And it just keeps getting worse.
What have we done? We are now playing God, with neither the skill nor the right to do so.
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July 1, 2003 04:31 PM
I couldn't agree more. I too explore this topic on my Weblog, Joel. Check out: The Intuitive Life for my views on this disturbing topic. :-)
September 13, 2004 06:11 AM
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