Posted on 10/09/2024 5:44:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
The little clump of cells looked almost like a human embryo. Created from stem cells, without eggs, sperm, or a womb, the embryo model had a yolk sac and a proto-placenta, resembling a state that real human embryos reach after approximately 14 days of development. It even secreted hormones that turned a drugstore pregnancy test positive.
To Jacob Hanna’s expert eye, the model wasn’t perfect—more like a rough sketch. It had no chance of developing into an actual baby. But in 2022, when two students burst into his office and dragged him to a microscope to show him the cluster of cells, he knew his team had unlocked a door to understanding a crucial stage of human development. Hanna, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, also knew that the model would raise some profound ethical questions.
You might recall images of embryonic development from your high-school biology textbook: In a predictable progression, a fertilized egg morphs into a ball of cells, then a bean-shaped blob, and then, ultimately, something that looks like a baby. The truth is, though, that the earliest stages of human development are still very much a mystery. Early-stage embryos are simply too small to observe with ultrasound; at 14 days, they are just barely perceptible to the naked eye. Keeping them alive outside the body for that long is difficult. Whether anyone should is another matter—for decades, scientific policy and regulation has held 14 days as the limit for how long embryos can be cultured in a lab.
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Ping!..................
Not without a rabbi and a live chicken! 🤨
As with the scams from Big Pharma and Big Academia, "almost like" is the new "like."
\Moreover the article states "It is also at that point that an embryo can no longer become a twin. 'You become an individual,' Jeremy Sugarman, a professor of bioethics and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, told me."
Therefore abortion is the killing of an "individual."
One also recalls that Johns Hopkins ran the Covid site tallying numbers for that "pandemic" which has turned out -- according to their numbers -- to have a mortality rate across the entire time period of less than one tenth of one percent. Or, "almost like."
Almost like. It's what today's science, and government funded science is become. Almost like reality, but not really.
Are they human?
I’ve noticed that liberals have steered away from the ‘non human’ mass-of-cells argument in the last 25 years.
They still use it some, but they’ve learned that it’s bullcrap in the face of science as well as common sense.
The only reason the cells don’t develop into a walking talking human being is because someone terminated their life before they could. It was never going to become a terrapin or koala bear, and everyone knows it.
It'd be like saying: "She's not fat. She's built like Stacey Abrams."
I recall reading of experiments where human brain cells were added to mouse brains (I don’t recall why), they thrived and multiplied and the scientists were careful to point out that they would surely destroy any mouse human hybrids that showed signs of human consciousness and intelligence. Anyone else recall that?
I imagine something like the BrightBorn babies on the TV show “Orphan Black”. They were horrific. Messing with God’s creation will be the same.
Sounds like a fork of the Planet of the Apes plot mechanism. Forgetting to destroy the mice with human consciousness. Ouch.
I, for one, welcome our Mus overlords
indeed. Might be the beginnings of a “crop”, where the elites donate cells and shells are grown for parts harvest. Couple Sci Fi tropes existing about this
No, they are not.
“They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?”
No, they are Democrats.
so...no brain cells either.
Probably won’t end well.
It’s their way to dehumanize a human life.
I recall a movie based on that concept 60 years ago, Willard
Then Umbrella Corp buys their research and . . .
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