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Scientists Will Create Unborn Babies Who are Part Human, Part Animal for Research
Life News ^
| Jul 8, 2021
| David Prentice, Ph.D.
Posted on 07/08/2021 11:54:43 AM PDT by Marchmain
As we expected, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) issued its revised guidelines on stem cells and embryo experiments at the end of May 2021, and as expected, the ISSCR recommendations are rife with proposed experiments on young human beings.
The new guidelines discard the 14-day limit on human embryo experiments in favor of no limits, and they allow virtually unrestricted manufacture of human-animal chimeras of any type, as well as creation of genetically altered human embryos and lab constructed human embryo “models.” Very little is left in the category of “currently not permitted.”
The ISSCR overreach is telling when bioethicists with widely-divergent views on embryo research ethics label the new recommendation for no limits a “grave omission,” and when well-known supporters of human-embryo research say they are “troubled by the recommendations,” especially removal of the 14-day limit.
The ISSCR’s self-serving guidelines even reminded a senior scientist of a letter written long ago, with currently-applicable sage advice about experiments: “If it is dangerous, or wrong, or both, and if it doesn’t need to be done, we just ought not to do it.”
While ISSCR advocates for human embryo exploitation, we do need to remember that this is a self-appointed group of scientists, acting without public input, proposing self-regulation for other scientists. Of course, the real purpose of these guidelines is that they are trying to fend off any government regulations or public outcry that could hinder their research desires. But as the letter writer mentioned above notes: “the right experiment to do should not be determined by scientists alone.”
In the United States, a key federal law has provided a barrier against a great deal of human embryo exploitation: the Dickey-Wicker amendment. This annual prohibition passed by Congress prevents taxpayer funds from being used for life-destroying embryo research.
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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: cool; prolife; research; science
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"...But at the first meeting, the panel chairman announced that the panel’s mission was not to debate embryo research but to recommend types of experiments for federal funding. He went on to tell the group that anyone who disagreed with that goal had been appointed by mistake and should resign. The biased panel proceeded to lay out a series of recommendations for taxpayer funding of various experiments using human embryos, including creation of human embryos specifically for destructive research. But while praised by scientists and administrators at NIH, even President Clinton rejected the proposals from the panel. Passage of the Dickey-Wicker amendment was a stern repudiation of the overreach of scientists who considered human embryos nothing more than experimental resources to be used and discarded."
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:54:43 AM PDT
by
Marchmain
To: Marchmain
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:55:39 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
To: Marchmain
We live in sick,depraved and evil times.
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:55:54 AM PDT
by
shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: Marchmain
OMG!! OMG!!!! PLEASE GOD. SMITE THEM!!!
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:57:48 AM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Marchmain
First thing that came to my mind:
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:58:20 AM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
To: Marchmain
democrats and rinos praise the demons of hades .....
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:58:34 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
To: Marchmain
Evil.
No other word for it.
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:58:39 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Ann Archy
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:58:52 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Tagline for rent. $end money up front. But I won't pimp blogs.)
To: Marchmain
Gee, What can go wrong?
I’m envisioning a “Species” scenario, but Syl wont look like Natasha Henstridge, more like Madeline Albright.
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:59:10 AM PDT
by
TexasM1A
To: Marchmain
Netflix created a show about it. Sweet Tooth. Of course a deadly virus almost wiped out all of humanity first.
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:59:15 AM PDT
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: Marchmain
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields.
In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research.
Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Farewell Address 1961
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:59:24 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
To: Ann Archy
The first time this situation existed civilization was destroyed by water. This time: fire.
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posted on
07/08/2021 11:59:28 AM PDT
by
myerson
(How much longer?)
To: Marchmain
How would you like to be that experiment?
"Please .... Kill me." - Alien Resurrection
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posted on
07/08/2021 12:00:12 PM PDT
by
conservativeimage
(The mask is the boot stamping on the human face forever.)
To: Huskrrrr
Reminds me of Island of Dr. Moreau. And that perverse scene of Brando playing piano duet with the human/animal.
To: All
I already made four of them.
To: Ann Archy
Wish He would hurry up and get here. I can’t believe what I’m seeing on a daily basis. SMH.
To: Marchmain
nothing new... they’ve been shootin and lootin for years...
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posted on
07/08/2021 12:02:28 PM PDT
by
heavy metal
(smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
To: Marchmain
From “Jurassic Park”:
John Hammond: I don’t think you’re giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody’s ever done before...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
To: Ann Archy
#5:
OMG!! OMG!!!! PLEASE GOD. SMITE THEM!! If not, then maybe God will explain His reasoning to Sodom and Gomorrah. Then again God is sovereign and He doesn't have to explain anything. But if He so chooses, I'm all ears.
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posted on
07/08/2021 12:03:47 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
To: Marchmain
It’s the destruction of the world.
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posted on
07/08/2021 12:03:50 PM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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