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I understand that this is your opinion with regards to diploid parthenogenesis, but I am still waiting for your answer regarding haploid parthenogenesis.

I have already explained my understanding of haploid parthenogenesis, but I'll do it again, just for you. It is objectionable to me because it is a form of experimenting with human life, but not experimenting with a human being; the Embryo (even a parthogenically conceived embryo) is a human being in its earliest age along its lifetime continuum. A thing formed via electrical stimulation of a haploid cell (a 23 chromosome cell) is not a human being.

From the posted article (note the word EMBRYO and stem cells; these terms refer to an alive, individual human EMBRYO conceived through artificail parthenogenesis): But researchers from Stemron report in the journal Stem Cells that they have successfully used artificial parthenogenesis in humans and that the cells taken from one of the embryos survived for a number of days.

Here's the key to the obfuscation that you're promoting. From the article: Scientists claim to have discovered a way of producing embryonic stem cells that could side-step the entire ethical debate (read, a way to confuse the average pro-lifer so they don't understand the reality) surrounding such research.

From the posted article (note the word EMBRYO and stem cells; these terms refer to an alive, individual human EMBRYO conceived through artificail parthenogenesis): But researchers from Stemron report in the journal Stem Cells that they have successfully used artificial parthenogenesis in humans and that the cells taken from one of the embryos survived for a number of days.

Here's the key to the obfuscation that you're promoting. From the article: Scientists claim to have discovered a way of producing embryonic stem cells that could side-step the entire ethical debate (read, a way to confuse the average pro-lifer so they don't understand the reality) surrounding such research.