Posted on 06/20/2007 7:41:26 PM PDT by monomaniac
This is idiotic. If it was even remotely possible for these cells to grow into embryos, it would be being seriously considered as a method of human cloning.
It’s crap like this which gives the pro-life cause a black eye time and time again.
More New Tone crapola...
I know nothing about it, but it doesn’t seem like reprogramming adult cells to act like embryonic cells is unethical. Anyone else?
It raises the question. A question is "begged" only when it is answered using redundant information, frustrating the asker.
monomaniac doesn’t post to his/her/it’s own threads. He/she/it is a post~n~runner...
Some people would have us treating tumors as sacred human flesh.
Very bad news.
Let’s stick to ADULT STEM CELLS and PLACENTA STEM CELLS.
Don’t go wobbly on us. You will lose the pro-life support and you won’t get a word of thanks from the Democrats. Not one word.
Don’t do it.
These are adult stem cells.
The process for obtaining stem cells that are actually removed from viable embryos after they have separated from the cells which will become the placenta does destroy a viable mature human being. A somatic (fully differentiated) cell taken from a mature human and coaxed to return to a more primitive stage so it can be redirected is still just a tiny fraction of the body it came from, not an interrupted life.
Some earlier research focused on creating non-viable fertilized eggs by manipulation, and designating them as acceptable because they could never develop properly. But that doesn’t sound like anything I would want transplanted into me.
I have no problem at all with this recent discovery, and I don’t think you should, either.
This movement is turning into "PETA for people".
“pluripotent stem-cell research just amounts to the same thing as embryonic stem-cell research,”
Well, yes, except that embryos are not used. I don’t know why Lifesite gets spammed so heavily onto FreeRepublic. It’s like we’re a repeater station for them. And, as this article shows, they have as much of an agenda as anyone else.
A deceptive move designed to fool all of us, because they figure we can’t understand these complicated processes.
Seems to me from all I’ve read of this process is that they’re cloning embryos and disabling them. Making them intentionally defective. Ghoulish.
Dangerous territory indeed.
Really? You call “reprogramming adult cells to act like embryonic stem-cells” cloning embryos? Maybe you should read some more ... starting with the article at the top of the thread.
Right! They are tweeked adult stem cells. The tweeking doesn't make them embryos.
No. They’re using the “Dolly the sheep” method to create embryos, using adult cells as a sperm substitute. It’s cloned. And they’re ghoulishly disabling the cloned embryo so that, theoretically, it supposedly cannot implant in the uterus. Somehow, that is supposed to make it alright.
Bush, and Romney for that matter, are pulling a fast one.
They’re embryos.
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