X-Message-Number: 18569
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:13:37 +1100
From: Damien Broderick <>
Subject: Re: solving the stem cell debate

>From: "John Grigg" <>

>the idea of getting away from using the unborn to harvest stem cells

I don't believe I've ever heard of anyone planning to harvest stem cells
from the *unborn*. What a bizarre idea! How would this work? Via
amniocentesis? A probe inserted through the cervix? (That would be quite
dangerous.) Why not just use stem cells from in vitro blastulas?

Hang on--I don't suppose you mean that the unborn should be *trained* to
harvest stem cells, perhaps from their own placentas? That's brilliant, but
how would they deliver the cells to the cloning scientists?

Damien Broderick
[who favors using stem cells from the undead; they're so tremendously
persistent]

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