Life begins at conception.Spaceboy wrote:On the issue of producing tissue or organs or something from stem cells, wouldn't it just create baby organs, or baby tissue, or something? Is that a problem? The cloned sheep died relatively soon compared to a normal sheep life because on the DNA of every cell that divides there's a segment that is cut off every time the cell divides, and when that segment is gone the cell just dies. Because the cloned sheep was not produced from a sperm and an egg (which have that segment on the DNA reattatched) her cells were 'aged' and had died. Could having an organ with aged cells cause a problem? My dad reads on stuff like this all the time and I know what he's told me, but I'm just curious about it.
As with the morals of stem cell research, if I flick my balls 1,000,000 sperm have probably just been killed and no-one cares, and eggs die monthly for girls. These dying cells technicially have the potential for life, if they're inside eachother why does that suddenly make them equal to a human being?
If this new cell has every property of a stem cell, a baby could still be created from it. Regardless if it is one consenting person's DNA, identical twins are separate people, you would still be messing around with a potential human life. Why is this any different? Is it because that person already existed and took this newly created cell's place of being a person, even though it still has the potential of being one? If you take cells from your own body and turn them into cells that behave like stem cells, that segment on part of one's DNA is very shortened and will create an aged organ. If you take a stem cell and over time replace every part of a person's body, would they live twice is long as an average human? Since most brain cells don't divide, mabye they could take the nucleus of those.
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