Posted on 10/25/2012 2:21:17 PM PDT by NYer
Scientists in Oregon have created embryos with the genes of two women and one man. From the AP story:
Scientists in Oregon have created embryos with genes from one man and two women, using a provocative technique that could someday be used to prevent babies from inheriting certain rare incurable diseases. The researchers at Oregon Health & Sciences University said they are not using the embryos to produce children, and it is not clear when or even if this technique will be put to use
An argument could be made that “children” were made, depending how one defines the word. Certainly, new human organisms were–and as an experiment. That is a big moral deal.
Researchers want money to go farther with their experiments:
Mitalipov said in an interview that the researchers hope to get federal approval to test the procedure in women, but that current restrictions on using federal money on human embryo research stand in the way of such studies
What, allow the children to be born? Or, repeatedly gestate and abort? That awful prospect would probably be necessary to test safety and examine the development of later embryos and fetuses produced by the procedure before taking it to the final step. Details please.
Federal funding is not allowed because of the Dickey/Wicker Amendment (which also prohibits federal funding of human cloning research). But DW is only a budget issue and must be passed yearly to remain in effect. I think it is urgent that its provisions–which prohibit federal funding for the creation of embryos for use in research–be embedded into permanent federal statutory law. States should also pass such restrictions.
Also note, that preventing illness is just the key that opens the door to many of these Brave New World technologies. Eventually–given the way things go these days–if the procedure ever becomes doable, it will go quickly from the “medical” to the “consumerist,” e.g., facilitating lifestyle choices and personal preferences. That’s what happened with IVF, after all, which is no longer restricted to treating the infertile. Indeed, if we ever normalize polyamory, one could see the technique as a way for three partners to have biologially related children.
Ping!
The divorce lawyers are probably subsidizing the research.
Gonna have some majorily screwed up kids.
Well this is suitably ghoulish.
Where would it end?
Nah, the Fag Lobby.
experimenting with laboratory created, genetically-modified humans?
What could go wrong with that??
This kind of nonsense should be banned on pain of death.
All right. I’m not sure how or why, but I’m positive the homosexual agenda will be advanced by this procedure. Color me suspicious.
I didn't figure they'd settle for anything less than combination colon/uterus.
So how many chromosomes does the baby have?
The sperm and ovum, make a complete, set - so what they are going to have 1.5 now.
This is not going to end well, as always the children will be the victims.
There is no color for suspicious, there is only the color of truth.
Yet the left freaks out about genetically-modified foods. Humans, they have no problem with.
Is this really new? The Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh claimed to be “two-thirds god and one-third man.” It sounds like he underwent this procedure.
Why, yes, I understand the development of the Coleo-terus is going swimmingly.
Labor to be induced using Milk of Magnesia.
They probably can’t wait to have anal abortions.
Savings all around.
My first thought, as well. Second thought, researching their ancestry ;-)
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