Era of 'unborn mother' looms as scientists use aborted foetuses to grow human eggs

The Independent (UK) ^ | 01 July 2003 | Steve Connor

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Next step on the slippery slope...

[EggsAckley]

This is truly unnerving.

[MEGoody]

This is a sick, sick world.

[Malacoda]

Unnerving, indeed. I may have nightmares about this.

[Sabertooth]

When "non-human life" or "human non-life" becomes able to reproduce human life, the Left will need to pioneer brave new fields of rhetorical fallcy to maintain the political viability of their agenda.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Of course you meant that this is a "Brave New World".

I am a fan of science, but the lack of morality in scientists is truely reaching staggering proportions.

[tbpiper]

My God, what have we become?

[wattsmag2]

Will the child be able to sue the abortionist for murdering it's mother?

[Ferret Fawcet]

twisted and scary.

[tbpiper]

decide that it would be difficult for a child to come to terms with the idea that it had been created from aborted foetal material because of prevailing social attitudes.

Not that they consider killing babies to make babies wrong, just at odds with "prevailing social attitudes".

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Not that they consider killing babies to make babies wrong, just at odds with "prevailing social attitudes".

Also note that, after a decade of intense soul-searching, the strongest ethical argument they could raise against the process is that a baby born in this way would have poor self esteem.

[GovernmentShrinker]

This will never catch on. Ovary donations from young women killed in accidents would be much easier and pose no ethical obstacles.

[MudPuppy]

the end must be coming very soon. This is unbelievable.

[Callahan]

How else or going to populate the world with Howard Dean supporters?

[MJemison]

For a physician's take on what might happen with these unborn ovaries, read Robin Cook's Shock.

[BMiles2112]

I'm curious to know what's taking Him so long. It will only get worse.

[msdrby]

Sum it up in one word? Unnatural.

[Incorrigible]

Figured you'd be interested.

[RightWhale]

such a scenario raises grave ethical questions

Ethics doesn't begin to cover this issue. Eugenicists will end up with entire races of men growing in their beakers. They'll have fish-men, bird-men, organdonor-men, machinecontrolbrain-men, interstellarspaceship-men, cruise missile-men, automated traffic control-men, and more.