Friday, May 06, 2005
Is This A Good Idea?
Human eggs which could grow into embryos have been created in a laboratory for the first time, scientists announced yesterday.There are really only two applications of this technology mentioned in the piece, infertility treatment and "farming" embryoes for research. That second application is horrifying.
They were created by scraping stem cells off the surface of ovaries and exposing them to a chemical which stimulated growth.
The first one troubles me. For the life of me, I cannot understand why something like this would be preferable to adoption, especially in older couples. There is a reason God left child rearing to the young.
