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Obama Lifts Ban on Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research

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Kenneth3/09/2009 10:42:43 am PDT

re: #103 Sheepdogess

Producing humans solely for the purpose of harvesting their organs is next.

These are indeed weird times.

Something like that is already happening. Criminal organizations in Brazil, Russia, India and elsewhere have been known to kidnap people, remove their kidneys or other organs for sale. The victim of course is left to die.

Organ Shortage Fuels Illicit Trade in Human Parts

No, this is not stem-cell research. But the moral calculus which seeks to justify one can be used by the other.