Human-Pig Embryos and Real Moral Lines
The British online paper, Telegraph, is reporting that the Human Fertilisation (sp) and Embryology Authority has issued a third animal-human hybrid embryo license, this time for human DNA to be inserted into de-nucleated pig embryos, producing human-pig hybrid embryos. While the idea is as creepy as b-grade science fiction, it is not fiction. It is happening right now. The only reason people are not fully engaged in disputing it is that the embryos are almost immediately destroyed in order to harvest stem cells for research and therapy.
Surely average Joes are disgusted by the fact that scientists are producing human-pig hybrids. But then again, shouldn’t they be equally disgusted Read the rest of this entry »
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