1st reported synthetic human embryo sparks ethical concerns, creates questions
June 29, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: “Scientists have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, in a groundbreaking advance that sidesteps the need for eggs or sperm,” The Guardian reported.
Melissa Moschella, a philosophy professor at Catholic University of America, commented, “We are playing with fire here [by] experimenting with the origins of human life when it’s not quite clear how we would know when what we’ve created is actually a human being.”
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Posted by: grateful1 -
Jun. 30, 2023 9:10 PM ET USA
Prof. Moschella's point is chilling -- and correct.
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Posted by: bobm51997 -
Jun. 30, 2023 7:25 PM ET USA
No egg, no sperm, no Soul, no God's Child
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jun. 29, 2023 8:22 PM ET USA
An NIH webpage titled "Stem Cell Basics" states that embryonic stem cells are extracted from human embryos. The cited CNA article says: "This creation...uses a single embryonic stem cell". The Wikipedia entry on "blastocyst" says: "The inner cell mass of blastocysts is the source of embryonic stem cells". A blastocyst forms from a fertilized egg in the early development of an embryo, about 5-6 days after conception. It seems clear that the research cited in this article begins with an abortion.
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Posted by: dover beachcomber -
Jun. 29, 2023 7:13 PM ET USA
Over the past 50 years our culture has produced 65 million embryos by the ordinary method—which we then killed. So why do we now seek an artificial means to produce MORE embryos?
