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Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos
An anonymous reader writes "Harvard University scientists claim they will soon start trying to clone human embryos to create stem cells. Even with the history of controversy and fraud researchers hope they can one day use the newly created stem cells to aid in battle against many diseases. From the article: 'The privately funded work is aimed at devising treatments for such ailments as diabetes, Lou Gehrig's disease, sickle-cell anemia and leukemia. Harvard is only the second American university to announce its venture into the challenging, politically charged research field.'"
sickle-cell anemia True ... (black) people who are suffering from this dicease
probably won't be able to be the next Michael Johnson
but iirc sickle-cell anemia is a mutation that protected them against malaria
There are probably some areas that are like that, but this is one that one can only object to from a religious (hence uninformed and totally irrelevant) point of view.
A religious point of view _is_ uninformed, but I certainly wouldn't call it irrelevant. Not while one of religions makes everything they can do to wipe out any "infidels" -- first Israel, then the rest of the world, pursuing nuclear weaponry to achieve these result, and another one _already_ has nukes and keeps invading other countries for bogus reasons.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
The "big morality issue" you're missing is the manipulation and destruction of human life for medical research purposes. If you believe that life begins at birth, rather than conception, then doing scientific experiements on human embryos isn't going to bother your conscience any.
What really amuses me about your post is that you take it even further, concluding that the embryo is worth less than the dying "family man" as it has "no family, or home, or even guarantee of survival." Couldn't the same be said of homeless people? Clearly they're contributing less to society, so why wait until they die to harvest their organs for those "more established and loved" people who need them?
In that case tighten up rules on abortions. Timit them only to situations such as rape, or where a continued pregnancy would harm the mother or child.
That way it cuts off unethical abortions for cash, but doesn't make it illegal altogether. There will always be back-alley abortion clinics for those who didn't think about contraception (Abortion is not a form of this) but what can you do?
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?