View Single Post
Old 07-20-2001, 02:29 PM   #8
Absynthe
Guest
 

Posts: n/a
Cloudy, dear one, my apologies!
The line about fundies was unneccesary; I retract it and apologize. I most certainly didn't mean YOU, and I sure as hell shouldn't generalize anyway.Actually, if I can figure out how, I'm going to edit that out...

To clarify my point about cloning, I don't mean to clone an entire foetus just to harvest the stem cells. Rather, I'm in favor of cloning the stem cells only, no living being involved, except as a donor, and that can be done as mentioned earlier from in vitro techniques.
I would say that creating a type of cell that is incapable of reproducing itself is not creating life to destroy it, but I'm open to other interpretations. It may be a technical point, but the stem cells used in therapy are not destroyed by the recipient, they actually become part of the recipients system.