Posted on 03/18/2021 1:04:26 PM PDT by ebb tide
SKOKIE, Illinois, March 18, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — An international body of scientists representing the stem cell research community plans to lift the current “ethical” ruling that embryos can only be grown for up to 14 days for the purposes of stem cell research, allowing human embryos to be cultured indefinitely.
The “14-day rule,” first published in 1979, has been in effect for over 40 years and has been incorporated into law in some countries, including the U.K. and Japan, but only exists as a guideline in the U.S. and China, among others.
The MIT Technology Review published a report on the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s (ISSCR) proposed extension to the hard limit. The ISSCR, which the Review noted has become the industry’s “de facto ethics regulator,” is considering the change in its current ruling “because of an onrush of new, boundary-busting research,” rather than being due to ethical considerations, the report said.
As an example, the Review details that a number of labs are now in the process of creating human-animal hybrids, or chimeras, from human cells and monkey embryos. At present, the two-week limit, after which point cultured embryos are destroyed, “stands in the way” of furthering this research.
The Review noted that throughout the “last 40 years, this voluntary guideline has served as an important stop sign for embryonic research. It has provided a clear signal to the public that scientists wouldn’t grow babies in labs. To researchers, it gave clarity about what research they could pursue.”
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Give evil an inch, and it will eventually demand a mile.
I thought they had proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that adult stem cells light years beyond these cancer fountains
If known scientists are openly asking to utilize more mature embryos, that tells me that somewhere on the planet, it’s already being done. Probably in China, Japan and the United States. I no longer expect the USA to faithfully uphold high standards of respect for life. Just consider how some of our vaccines are now being made.
Horrible.
God have mercy on us for our sinful ways.
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When not just use 10-year-old children?
The ones you don’t like or want, of course.
They’re not really human. Not really alive, after all.
Unless you decide you want them. Then it would be a Bad Thing.
Because, after all, you are God. Aren’t you?
How long before they figure out how to keep the embryo alive in a tank so they can experiment on it forever?
“Because, after all, you are God. Aren’t you?”
That’s the end result of materialism, yes. By ridding ourselves of God, we make ourselves the gods. Not in reality, of course, but in our own minds.
In China they don’t need to experiment on older embryos, they can just experiment on concentration camp prisoners.
Oh dear. One can only imagine the insane, inhuman, illegal activities now going on in a country the size of China.
It’s mindboggling and overwhelming.
I used to think the United Nations existed to keep things like modern day Concentration Camps from existing.
Now, they go after the path of least resistance. That is still usually the USA or other ‘civilized’ NATO country.
Well, the UN doesn’t have an army so they can only pick on “safe” targets that won’t fight back. Which makes them useless, as far as I can tell.
Still, a useless UN is probably much better than a “useful” UN that did have an army.
“Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese? Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews. Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.” Job 10:8-11
“And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch” Leviticus 18:21
“I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.” Psalm 22:10
“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.” Psalm 71:6
“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” Psalm 139:13-16
“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
“And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” Luke 1:41
“As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.” Luke 1:44
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven” Matthew 18:10
“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.” Luke 17:2
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace, “ Galatians 1:15
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12
“The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.” Jeremiah 51:30 (KJV)
“And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.” Revelation 18:21
How do these victims of medical experimentation give their consent to be used for research?
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