BERGEN COUNTY RIGHT TO LIFE
UK Scientists developing 2-mom embryo |
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| 9/12/2005 | www.news/yahoo.com | The UK government is allowing researchers to create a human embryo using genetic material from two women
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On 9/8/2005, the UK government approved plans of researchers at Newcastle University to create a human embryo using genetic material from two women, in an effort to prevent unborn babies from inheriting genetic disorders from their mothers.
The scientists will transfer the components of a human embryo nucleus (made by one man and woman) into an unfertilized egg from a different woman.
The research is controversial and has been condemned by the Vatican. According to Bishop Elio Sgreccia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life: "A real clone will be produced, the embryo from which the nucleus is taken is destroyed and they then create a new embryo implanted in a woman who becomes a substitute mother...All this constitutes a string of violations that is morally reprehensible, and not only from the Catholic point of view."
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