Posted on 11/04/2004 3:09:17 AM PST by ovrtaxt
With Californians voting overwhelmingly to borrow $3 billion to begin cloning for stem-cell research, it's just a short leap to the suggestions of an Indian scientist who proposes breeding headless humans to be used for harvesting organs and other forms of commercial exploitation.
That's the notion put forth by P.B. Desai, former director of the Tata Medical Center, who addressed the issue in a speech Friday titled "Conquest Over Mortality," according to the Indo-Asian News Service.
"Science is moving at such a fast pace that scientists have proven that they can create headless mice through removal of genes in embryo that control development of the head," said Desai. "But the body would have the capacity to keep the organs functional for use as transplants."
Desai floated the idea at a meeting of the Chicago-based International College of Surgeons in New Delhi.
Desai anticipates restrictions on the creation of a headless human being who has the capacity to keep organs functioning but no thinking mind.
"The ultimate aim of science and medicine is toward immortality," he said. "But I personally think a human being has to first learn to be a man, and once you learn the value of finite, you will not play god."
The quest for immortality could lead to the creation of headless humans for commercial exploitation and plunder of organs, Desai said.
"Embryonic stem cell, which holds promise of cure of any organ, is but a slow move toward immortality," he said. "The capability of stem cells is amazing as they can reproduce any organ."
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Okay, come up with a graphic for this one, dude.
He mispelled immorality.
Hehe! That comment is ridiculous on it's face. The ultimate aim should be the understanding of the universe, not a bid to usurp God.
These people are delusional. They think they can defeat death? It's already been done 2000 years ago, but they don't want to hear about that....
It all goes back to pride, and the desire for self-elevation. " I will be like the Most High". It's an old story.
And they all voted for Kerry!
Ask the DNC for their voter registration rolls. Or the NAACP's membership lists. Jesse Jackson's Rolodex ... the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ...
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Would you please post a subtitle on this picture. I wasn't sure if this was Tom Daschle, Terry McAuliffe, or the prototype of the new Democratic voter?
What, their going to breed more democrats?
I think the NIH performed similar experiments on unborn babies shortly after Roe v. Wade in 1973. Some frankensteinian "scientists" were attempting to keep alive the bodies of decapitated fetuses/babies.
No self-respecting head would be caught in that outfit.
This idea appeared on FR several years ago. Would headless clones be ethical?
Wow! I'm torn between the thought of intense pain, and the thoughts of shameful curiosity.
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