Wed 3 Dec, 2008
“Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?: Scientific American”
8:05 am Comments (2) Filed under: EthicsTags: Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Ethics
Good news on one front of the culture wars:
A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?
[Link: Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?: Scientific American]
It took me a while to figure out why the time display on my cell phone had anything to do with Bio-ethics.
I’m genuinely curious: if an embryo is essentially human, don’t the created embryos have the same ‘right to be born’ as one that is created ‘naturally’ in the uterus? What is it that distinguishes one embryo from the other?