[.cnI redruM]

>>>>'They import foetuses from poverty stricken countries to treat vain Western women'

Well, let's see...HRC still has two years before she runs for President..

[thiscouldbemoreconfusing]

What a sad life these women must lead.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Seems a bit canabalistic.

[wagglebee]

In America, President Bush has denounced stem- cell therapy even for medical purposes as 'godless', vetoing any public funding,

This is an outright lie!

Bush vetoed embryonic stem cell funding, adult and umbilical funding is not affected.

Nor does this article acknowledge that the ONLY successes from stem cell research are those that DON'T involve embryos.

[toomuchcoffee]

Brings the South Park elementary school nurse to mind.

[mrs. a]

Vampires.

[trisham]

In America, President Bush has denounced stem- cell therapy even for medical purposes as 'godless', vetoing any public funding,

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Not true. He denounced embryonic stem cell therapy. The media can never seem to get it right.

[ikka]

No side effects?

[Jim Noble]

Scientific illiteracy of this magnitude is amazing to behold.

[GOP Poet]

bump for later

[redgolum]

OMG.

The West is building up a judgment that will be terrible.

[tallhappy]

What an incredibly dishonest article.

While the ethics (to say the leats) of something like this are questionable, it does not involve babies or killing babies.

I'm sure worse exists in this world using aborted fetuses as well.

Vampirism has become a dominant paradigm in the last few years.

[Aquinasfan]

President Bush has denounced stem- cell therapy even for medical purposes as 'godless'

He denounces therapies using stem cells taken from aborted babies, not umbilical cords.

[FreedomProtector]

sounds like a Smallville episode only with criminals to evil for network television:

Shallow teen beauty uses green rocks to grow anti-aging tissue in a vain attempt to preserve fading beauty.

Shallow teen beauty kills innocent babies to obtain anti-aging tissue in a vain attempt to preserve fading beauty.

[Popocatapetl]

The concept of medical and scientific ethics has been discarded. No longer is there any restraint, Dr Frankenstein is free to do whatever he pleases.

Not just personal barbarism, with their own colleagues approval, but a competition for who can violate the most basic tenets of existence.

Being a "mad scientist" is no longer at the extreme end of the the bad side of the dichotomy of acceptable and unacceptable medical and scientific behavior. It is a degree of scale.

"How far will you go?", is no longer a measure of insanity, but of fortitude. Of will. The lesser scientist refuses to do, refuses to violate, corrupt and destroy.

In truth, Dr Frankenstein is a lesser light, because he was horrified with his creation. Were his accomplishment to be created today, not only would he be happy and lauded, but he would be deluged with money for even more abominable experiments. Hundreds of scientists across the world would seek to replicate and improve his work, patenting whatever derivations they could discover.

Because "the monster" would be patentable, and patented. It would not be a soulless hulk, but a slave. Mass produced as intelligent organ donors and experimental surgery subjects. Conscripted, with modification, as expendable warriors. Fed narcotics and modified for a few years' use before being put down.

Perhaps its DNA would be spliced with animals, to create a more destructive and violent creature. Its brain wired with electrodes to better control its actions. Make it a giant or to look like a human.

Why not use them as assassins and suicide bombers? To perform ethnic cleansing?

These are no longer the ideas of horror movie scriptwriters. They are the dreams and imaginings of doctors and scientists who want to bring such things, and a million others, into reality.

Because if we don't do it, someone else will. And we will lose our corporate profits and government grants. We are, after all, a research university. Umbrella Corporation.

It sounds like a rant, but there really is no limit to monstrosity, the absence of ethics, the unwillingness, not just to reject the unacceptable in your own work, but to stand against those without any grace or humanity.

"We can destroy the world, but we're working hard to be able to destroy the world even better!"

[reagandemocrat]

Devouring dead children is the 'Fountain of Youth'.

[gobucks]

HEADSPINNINGLY UNREAL. Talking pigs and horses on a farm make more sense....

[after dark]

It must be so bitter for some women to get old and realize that men think chubby teenager girls are beautiful.

The women in the article remind me of the wicked queen from Snow White.

[dead]

Seriously, I want to ask Andrea what would possess her to write an article about a subject on which she obviously does not have even the slightest grasp on the most basic level.

There is no moral conflict in using stem cells gathered from umbilical cords. You can eat an umbilical cord sandwich if you like, or wear an umbilical cord hat if that's your fancy. It's gross, but you're not hurting anybody else.

[AmericanChef]

"Oh, no - we'd NEVER kill babies on purpose just to get their cells! It would never come to THAT!" I predict farms in the U.S. in 15-20 years.

[BigCinBigD]

I'll bet she has more plastic on her front end than a 99 Neon.