re: #766 Claire

Is everyone in this discussion aware that the cells here are basically a cluster of about 100 undifferentiated cells. As far as I know, all alike. Unorganized, undifferentiated- no nervous system, no organs, no brain. About as complex a life form as 100 frog cells at the same stage?

You are aware, aren’t you that this cluster of cells will never develop into a frog or a chicken or a dog or a horse? If allowed to mature, it will never be anything more than human.

What disturbs me the most about this debate is the refusal of some people to recognize that we are talking about experimentation on human life at its earliest stages. Since it’s acceptable to experiment on this life prior to the point where it is recognizably human, then would you also support experimentation with 5 week old embryos? They’re not recognizably “human” either.