To: nickcarraway
Yes, there are thousands of people frozen. And yes, there are millions of people in their mothers' fallopian tubes and uteri, where those people have not implanted yet. They are Homo sapiens sapiens, just as I am.
And no, Dolly was not concieved unless you count her mother/identical twin's conception. She was generated in a lab by stem cell nuclear transfer cloning. But, from the quickening of that first cloned embryo cell - the zygote equivalent according to the President's Bioethics Council - she was a sheep,
The cells of these people are coveted by researchers who desire to use the toti- and pleuri-potency of the cells that make up the human body at this stage of development.
90 posted on
11/06/2003 10:16:43 PM PST by
hocndoc
(Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
To: hocndoc
The cells of these people are coveted by researchers who desire to use the toti- and pleuri-potency of the cells that make up the human body at this stage of developmentDo you happen to know if the "manufacture" of Epogen or Procrit depends on fetal stem cells?
136 posted on
11/07/2003 9:27:06 AM PST by
syriacus
(Casual comments about tubes, made after watching a 3 handkerchief movie, do not justify euthanasia.)
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