Harvard to Clone Human Embryos?

Lifix writes ""Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos for disease research, potentially becoming the first researchers in the nation to wade into a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue."

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It has to be said... so mod me down if you must

[Neo-Rio-101]

I for one welcome our cloned human embryo overlords...

Unfortunately...

[gnu-sucks]

...this is the beginning of a Brave New World

I don't like this

[nels_tomlinson]

They're going to make babies, and then do experiments on them. Ick.

This really isn't the same as what Dr. Josef Mengele did: he waited until after the children were born before he tortured them.

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[polecat_redux]

As we legislate based on dogma, many other countries are passing us by in science and technology.

Hence the folly of having a government run by Christians, in a country founded (and somewhat populated) by puritans.

WTF????

[Lord Kano]

• a divisive area of study that has become a presidential campaign issue.

So, it's "between a woman and her doctor" if she wants to kill her child and the government shouldn't get involved, but it's perfectly fine to legislate the source of a child that she wants to give birth to?

LK

Re:I'm for it, I guess

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok then. We should raise the limit on legal abortions to 3 years post birth, kind of like a money back garantee in case mom changes her mind and decides she doesn't like/want the kid any more for any reason. And since someone is going to be pissed, well, it's not like the thing could survive on its own, so it really doesn't have a say in its future until it's a little farther along in its development ;-)

Disease to cure

[RealProgrammer]

Harvard, founded as a seminary, now becomes Frankenstein's Laboratory.

Human cloning is simply sick and wrong. There are lines not to cross in the search for knowledge, and this is one of them.

If they're looking for a disease to cure, how about their own sociopathy?

I know this will get modded down, but I don't care.

No, I'm not being funny, other than that sad irony of a once glorious institution now mired in an ethical quag.

Re:Human cloning...

[crazyphilman]

And you. I didn't claim moral high ground or authority. I stated my opinion.

And, I didn't deserve being called an ignorant religious extremist because I disagreed with you.

So, again, FUCK YOU.

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[general_re]

Welcome to the /. groupthink buzzsaw - you had the temerity to hint that maybe injecting cyanide into fetuses in their 100'th trimester wasn't such a hot idea. You are clearly not of the Hive, so you must be punished ;)