[ClaireSolt]

Have you seen the estimates of how many millions of eggs this is likely to require and what kind of abuses of women, usually assumed to be poor 3rd worlders, this entails?

Ethically, it assumes that the government has a right to seize, as if by emminent domain, cells from one vulnerable citizen to use for research or treatment of another. None of the people who want to do this have any embryos of their own. They want to comandeer someone else's.

All of these concerns remain in an atmosphere where the only rationale is based on political hype, not scientific proof of any real benefit.

[Fighting Irish]

Have you seen the estimates of how many millions of eggs this is likely to require and what kind of abuses of women, usually assumed to be poor 3rd worlders, this entails?

No .... but I;m interested in reading anything you can link me to.

According to the company, " generated human embryonic stem cells (HES cells) using an approach that does not harm embryos. The technique is derives stem cells from human blastomeres with a single-cell biopsy technique called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

I'm no genious ... but doesn't that take the wind out of the argument that potential babies will be destroyed?