Is ethics in science dead? (Score 1)

"What we're on the road towards is making identical twins, identical triplets, and the identical quads which could serve as the models for treating the life-threatening diseases that still plague us today," [Schatten] said.

Wait a minute here! The article talks about monkeys, true, but how far is this really from the process of cloning humans? Sure, we'll split an early embryo now and freeze half. That way, later in life when the poor schmuck drinks himself half to death, we can bring the other half to term (splitting it again, of course) and give the guy a new liver.

I'm certainly no right-to-life advocate, but once an embryo comes to term I don't think anyone would argue that it's now a living being.

I'm rambling, of course. The implications of something like this are just too frightening to imagine.

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