(Ron) Human life is sacred
Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Fri, 8 May 1998 22:52:36 -0400 (00894703956, 19980509024133.AAA591@briandea)
>RON
> A "fertiised (egg?) sex (???) cell", if I read this right, IS a human
>being at its earliest stage of development. If given the right
>conditions (nourishment and freedom from harm) it will continue to grow
>into a mature human. A skin cell will not. Once again, the pope never
>said that ANY cell with DNA is a human being.
>
>LARRY
>If I understand the technology at all, it is possible to clone animals
>without fertilization occurring at all. I believe this is what they did
>with Dolly the sheep. For that matter, they were using a cell from it's
>udder. They inserted DNA from another cell and then applied electricity
>to force it back to an unspecialized state. If this is the case, and I
>believe it is, then humans could also be cloned with ordinary cells
>without fertilization. So at what point does the growing mass of cells
>constitute human?
>
>Larry D. Enger
> Eternity is a really, really long time.
>
RON
Why don't you try to tell me. Are you one yet? At just what point did
you miraculously transform into one?