[extropy-chat] Lab Creates Babies As Stem-Cell Donors

[Brett Paatsch]

Damien Broderick wrote:

> >The Chicago doctors said the healthy embryos that were not matches
> >were frozen for potential future use. But some ethicists said such
> >perfectly healthy embryos could end up being discarded.
> >
> >"This was a search-and-destroy mission," said Richard Doerflinger of
> >the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The chosen embryos "were
> >allowed to be born so they could donate tissue to benefit someone else."
>
> It is a murderous disgrace that the Catholic Church does not encourage its
> flotilla of childless, virginal nuns to offer up their unoccupied wombs to
> carry these poor defenceless 100 cell but fully human persons to term!
Then
> they could be placed in Catholic orphanages, where the care is famously
> trustworthy and well-received.

:-)

I suspect its the life and death political difference between potential
persons
and actual persons in the embryonic stem cell area (and may "believers"
inability to grasp that that difference is substantive rather than "merely
semantics" or just a matter of faith), that makes me sensitive to other
areas
where potential and actual, real and imaginary, purported and established,
are also confounded, and by apparently intelligent people.

Brett Paatsch