Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Hwang Coerced Own Female Team Members to "Donate" Their Eggs

The more I read about the Hwang debacle, the more I see the cloning enterprise in a nutshell. Not the fraud part. But the dehumanization. One of the principle objections feminists make to human cloning is the great potential that women will be exploited for their eggs, which would be worse in "therapeutic cloning" than "reproductive cloning" because it would require hundreds of millions or billions of eggs to treat the hundreds of millions of patients in the world with degenerative conditions. Hwang's exploitation of his laboratory team is an apt post script to the fraud story (which, of course, is still unfolding).

2 Comments:

At January 05, 2006 , Blogger Robert B said...

She said she told Professor Hwang she wouldn't go through with the procedure, and she said Professor Hwang got upset and said, 'Why not?'"

This got me to thinking of the Kennedy-esque qualities of our egotistical Great Stem Cell Hub Leader

Hwang: "Most women say they want the fruits of their own eggs and say why?
I tell women to give me their eggs for the good of mankind and say why not?"

 
At January 05, 2006 , Blogger Wesley J. Smith said...

I am speechless, and that is rare. Thanks for your contribution.

 

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