[r9etb]

Well, that's an astonishing bit of hyperbole!

No, it's not. Once ESCs are used successfully to treat something, the lid is off. The argument moves to whether or not you want to "deny this life-restoring treatment" just to save a "mass of undifferentiated cells." That argument ought to sound awfully familiar to you -- it's the same one used to justify abortion.

[MHGinTN]

You used the phrase, "mass of undifferentiated cells." That is a false assertion on the face of it. here's why: by the time fetal stem cells are found alive inside the placental organ being built (and that is true even in petri dish embryos), the newly conceived organism has already begun differentiation (it started way back in the morula 'age'), to produce stem cells that make the placenta and stem cells that make the fetus. The target of embryonic harvesters is the fetal body at his or her earliest age in their lifetime. Stem cell differentiation begins before implantation, as the new LIFE tasks some stem cells to make the placenta and other stem cells to make the fetal body. it is the specific fetal body stem cells the researchers want to rip from the ORGANISM at the embryo age.