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Sunday, May 05, 2002"I support regenerative medicine research because I believe that human life requires and begins in a mother's nurturing womb, not in a petri dish. As I considered the ethical appropriateness of nuclear transplantation in regenerative medicine research, two facts stood out. The egg (with its nucleus removed) is never fertilized with sperm. And, the resulting unfertilized, electrically "activated" embryo will not be implanted into a woman's womb (or any type of artificial womb that may be developed some day) so there is no chance of a birth." This makes no sense, and it undermines the Senator's own pro-life, anti-abortion stance. An aborted embryo never has a chance for birth, either, but he considers that life worthy of protection. He seems to believe life only counts as life if it is conceived in the usual way and allowed to develop in a uterus. This is clearly wrong. It doesn't matter where the chromosomes come from or how they get placed in the egg, or where they develop. If you believe that life begins at conception, as Senator Hatch does, then any egg with a full set of human chromosomes is life. It’s a little baffling to hear Senator Hatch change his tune in such a convoluted argument. That is, it’s baffling until you realize that his second biggest source of campaign money is the pharmaceutical industry, which stands to profit from therapuetic cloning. posted by Sydney on 5/05/2002 11:54:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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