Scientists Create Human Male-Female Hybrid

AgapePress ^ | 7/11/03 | Bill Fancher and Jody Brown

[truthandlife]

Private researchers experimenting on human embryos have developed a being that is part male and part female.

A Chicago researcher, Dr. Norbert Gleicher of the Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, has announced the creation of "she-males," the result of injecting male cells into a female embryo. MSNBC reports that the work "provoked repulsion" when presented at a meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid.

Dr. Nancy Jones, a pathologist at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, was shocked at Gleicher's announcement -- but says she expects such experiments will continue until federal regulations are enacted prohibiting them.

"They injected male cells -- probably a stem cell line -- into the embryo and then asked where these cells went. Similar experiments have been done on animals in developmental models," Jones says.

Researchers tracked the male cells for six days before destroying the human embryo. Jones, who serves on Wake Forest's standing committee for ethics in research, says U.S. law forbids such experiments when federal funds are involved. However, no restrictions apply for private facilities conducting this kind of research.

"There are no guidelines available for the privately-funded facilities -- it's just whoever they are beholden to, if they have some sort of ethics committee. To me it clearly shows that we need more comprehensive regulation on what is and isn't ethical research on the human embryo," Jones says.

According to Jones, researchers claimed they were seeking better treatments for single-cell disorders, but that in similar experiments on animals, their efforts resulted in high death rates.

[jjm2111]

Dr. Frankenstein, paging Dr. Frankenstein, please report to operating room 2.

[11B3]

I thought it would be the offspring from a transexual couple. Now that would be a serious "minority" class.

[Support Free Republic]

See that good looking dude on the left? He's got FAR BETTER THINGS to do than conduct Freepathons! Come on, let's get this thing over with.

[MEGoody]

Just goes to show that many scientists have absolutely no regard for human life.

[Atlas Sneezed]

[Piquaboy]

Gee! No more having to go out looking for a woman to date.

[HenryLeeII]

Well, I guess the Woody Allen line from Love and Death is coming true: "We would have three children, one of each..." God help us, the fall of Rome was nothing compared to what lay before us...

[RandallFlagg]

Oh, THANKS A LOT! 7:13 in the morning and my whole day's already ruined!

[Wolfie]

It can nag itself into taking out the trash.

[Catspaw]

"I'd like to introduce you to my daughter-son."

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Now we finally know how "metrosexuals" are created.

[Nick Danger]

Just wait until they inject some horse cells into a human embryo. PETA will be outraged.

"I have created the world's first human horse's @ss!" Well sir, no you haven't.

[Gorzaloon]

It can nag itself into taking out the trash.

And upon completing the task, prettily adjusts the candelabra on the piano, and resumes playing.

[night reader]

Researchers tracked the male cells for six days before destroying the human embryo.
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I call that murder in the first degree even if the creature was artificially formed and would have led a life of misery.

[coloradan]

Sorry, Rosie's a he-woman, not a she-man.

[coloradan]

In a statement, the DNC supported the project but sharply criticized the destruction of the embryos, claiming they would have "greatly increased" the diversity these people would have brought to our land.

[FeliciaCat]

If Dr. Gleicher wanted a She-Male all he had to do was pick up a copy of the Village Voice. It would provide LOADS of She-Males for him.

[tom h]

"a being that is part male and part female. "

[Yawn] Nothing new here. These creatures have been populating the feminist studies departments of American colleges for years.

[lawdude]

Brings a whole new meaning to, "Go f*** yourself!"