Since so much research is being done in other countries, perhaps their
proof of making the PWP lives better, will encourage our government to
reconsider. Jo Ann

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:22:35 -0400 Mary Ann Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Jo Ann wrote;
> of life, for which we were both very grateful.
> > I certainly hope Bush's program (as much as I like him,. I would
> have to
> > disagree with him on this), doesn't affect that because many lives
> would
> > be lost. I wish he had a neurologist on his staff.
>
> There is an ethical problem with developing chimeras (human stem
> cells
> injected into animals). The New York Times article that I quoted a
> couple
> of weeks ago addressed this very issue. The Times has always been
> viewed as
> a liberal publication - so I was surprised by the caution expressed
> in the
> article that it might be too easy to go too far with this kind of
> experimentation.
>
> When is an animal an animal - and when does an animal become too
> human to
> be viewed as an animal any more? What happens when monkeys injected
> with
> human stem cells give birth to a human baby because both father and
> mother
> contained more human reproductive potential than animal? That was
> what the
> article questioned - albeit, the animal that was discussed was a
> mouse, not
> a monkey.
>
> The question made me uncomfortable. There is more to human stem
> cell
> research than just developing organs and parts - we may be
> developing an
> entirely new species for our own benefit. That new species might be
> more
> 'us' than 'them.' Is this slavery re-visited?
> ------------
> God bless
> Mary Ann (CG Jamie 65/25)
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