“They Were Made Without Eggs or Sperm. Are They Human?”
October 9th, 2024Via: The Atlantic:
When is a copy so good that it’s equivalent to the real thing? And more to the point, when should the lab experiment be treated—legally and ethically—as human?
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In an experiment published last year, seven-day-old model monkey embryos were successfully implanted in the uterus of three female monkeys. Signs of pregnancy disappeared about a week afterward, but the paper still raised the specter—or perhaps the promise—of a human version of the experiment.
Well, let’s see, here we have anatomically human animals, but if they aren’t legally human, we can harvest their organs and tissues, right? Grow them to whatever stage of development we want, and then to the slaughter house, oops I mean to the surgical suite with them. If they are lobotomized at birth, they will be docile animals.
Is tech progress now unstoppable?
Unfortunately, I think you hit the nail on the head.