[NYer]

Another California company, Ganogen Inc., is trying to end the shortage of organs for transplant. Their solution is horrifying. Ganogen takes organs from aborted fetuses and transplants them into rats so that the organs can continue to grow to a size where they can be transplanted back into humans. The company recently announced that it has been successful growing kidneys from an aborted baby inside a rat for several months.

Ping!

[william clark]

A few years ago when California voters were deciding a referendum on funding fetal cell research, it had language regarding cloning that fooled some people into voting for the measure. It said that human cloning “for reproductive purposes” would not be allowed. I had to point out to a co-worker who had been fooled by that phrase (and hence voted in favor) that all it meant was that any baby created by cloning would not be allowed to live, but would be used for research, organ harvesting, etc.; otherwise, there would be no reason to even incorporate the “for reproductive purposes” phrase in the language of the measure.