"Think of the way that you might speak to a child who asks 'is this how I began?' And the simple answer from a parent is 'yes, this is how you began, how I began'.
"That is a fundamental intuition. An embryo can't be separated from our development as a human being, can't just be seen as a mass of cells. There is something deeply wrong with that view."
The Age, a publication out of Australia, covers the current debate in that Nation, in "Cells of Division, Cells of Hope," by Jo Chandler and Karen Kissane.
(There's a glaring error: Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch is called a Catholic.)
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
More debate on status of the human embryo
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Ah, Senator Hatch, that brings back some memories...
I dont care what his bioethics positions are, dont support him. He has some *terrible* views on consumer rights - he was the one who said that it should be legal for copyright holders to remotely destroy the computers of infringers, to save on the expense of taking legal action. And who claimed that second-hand sales of media were illegal.
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