Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Calling Doctor Frankenstein
What do you think about Britain, legalizing the creation of human/animal hybrid embryos for medical research? Should the United States follow in Britain's footsteps? Creepy? I think it is. Where do you think it will lead us? Do you think this is the path that will lead to the cure of disease? Or do you think it might create more diseases than it cures?
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The United States is most definitely going to follow Britain's footsteps, we always do.
Jonathan Moreno of the University of Pennsylvania is heading up President-elect Obama's bioethics campaign and pro-lifers are calling that a negative for the movement.
Embryonic research involves the destruction of tiny human beings and is vigorously supported by Obama. Dr. David Prentice knows about Moreno's position on the subject and says that Moreno was on the National Academy of Sciences panel – a panel that approved guidelines for destroying embryos that were used for research and human cloning.
Dr. Prentice was asked if Moreno and others are ignoring the tremendous successes with adult stem cells, which does not involve killing an embryo.
"There's pretty much a blind eye being turned toward the real successes which come out every week," said Prentice. He adds that they would rather just look "ideologically at the open season on human embryos" and have "carte blanche to do any human experiments they want."
Moreno is also known to support animal-human hybrids.
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