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Human-monkey embryo 'deeply unethical' says Catholic bioethicist
Crux ^ | April 17, 2021 | Charles Collins

Posted on 04/17/2021 10:21:59 AM PDT by Marchmain

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – The creation of a human-nonhuman interspecies embryo is “deeply unethical,” according to the UK’s leading Catholic bioethics institute.

The scientific journal Cell published the findings of a U.S.-Chinese team of scientists who placed human stem cells – which have the ability to turn into different types of tissue – into the embryo of a long-tailed macaque monkey, creating a chimera embryo with cells developing from the two different species.

The researchers said they were studying possible methods of creating human organs for transplant, and the embryos were destroyed after 19 days, at which time they claimed they were able to detect human cells still growing in the embryos.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Science
KEYWORDS: chimera; china; cloning; helixmakemineadouble; leicester; research; romancatholicism; science; unitedkingdom
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“These experiments are deeply unethical,” said David Albert Jones, the director of the Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre.

“They cross a moral boundary because they mix human and nonhuman elements at a very early stage of development in a way that raises serious questions about moral status,” he said in a statement.

Jones points out that it is an open question on whether these embryos are human or not.

1 posted on 04/17/2021 10:21:59 AM PDT by Marchmain
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2 posted on 04/17/2021 10:25:21 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Marchmain

Commies love their monkey-men it seems....

https://www.wired.com/2005/12/stalins-monkey-/


3 posted on 04/17/2021 10:26:11 AM PDT by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Marchmain

Was the monkey’s name Ceasar?


4 posted on 04/17/2021 10:27:28 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Marchmain

I wonder where he came up with that conclusion.

they have to make a news headline for this?

Why don’t they just ask a sixth grader with a semblance of common sense.

The stupidity is so overwhelming


5 posted on 04/17/2021 10:27:59 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Marchmain

There are a lot of people who thought both of them were good presidents...


6 posted on 04/17/2021 10:33:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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7 posted on 04/17/2021 10:34:32 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Marchmain

To quote Bart Simpson “God Schmod I want my monkey-man”


8 posted on 04/17/2021 11:13:31 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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Human-monkey embryo 'deeply unethical' says Catholic bioethicist

If it's deemed "human", then the Biden Regime will allow it to be murdered up through delivery, but if it's monkey, the PETA will raise hell if they do!

BTW, is this the same American-Chinese team headed by Dr Fau-Chi that brought us the virus?

9 posted on 04/17/2021 11:14:40 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
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To: Marchmain

i do not see any problem. I mean we already have them here, Matt Damon, Joy Behar, to name just two.


10 posted on 04/17/2021 11:18:53 AM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Marchmain

Just like the days of Noah.


11 posted on 04/17/2021 11:30:30 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: Marchmain

Science!






Sometimes they choose poorly.

12 posted on 04/17/2021 11:39:47 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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If it can conceivably be done in a lab (or elsewhere), someone out there is right now trying to do it.

And, if they aren't, they soon will be.

13 posted on 04/17/2021 11:45:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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And when I say "if it can be done"...I mean ANYTHING, not just human-monkey embryos!
14 posted on 04/17/2021 11:47:36 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: GraceG

Lev 18:23 And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.


15 posted on 04/17/2021 12:56:22 PM PDT by the_daug ( )
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..."Just like the days of Noah."....

It would be interesting to do a poll to see how many people today even understand what you were talking about. I have trouble even convincing Christians what was going on in the Days of Noah to cause God to condemn the whole earth. Then we had Nephilim, today we have CRISPER.

16 posted on 04/17/2021 2:23:47 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I hear Pope Francis is going to advance statehood for the hybrid, even though it doesn't exist yet.

17 posted on 04/18/2021 7:59:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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“deeply unethical”

Deeply unethical? More like pure evil...

18 posted on 04/18/2021 9:05:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (We need a better class of 'elites' - the ones we have now are more like stupid white trash...)
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...”Just like the days of Noah.”....
It would be interesting to do a poll to see how many people today even understand what you were talking about. I have trouble even convincing Christians what was going on in the Days of Noah to cause God to condemn the whole earth. Then we had Nephilim, today we have CRISPER.<<

Probably not too many, but it’s not so fringe anymore.


19 posted on 04/18/2021 4:03:20 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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To: Marchmain

Sounds like the opening scenes of some horror movies.

The question is, why a monkey instead of an ape? Don’t we share more DNA with them than with monkeys? How about Romulans or Klingons?


20 posted on 04/19/2021 10:29:50 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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