Comments on: Another Clone and Kill Bill http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/09/26/another-clone-and-kill-bill/ Bill Muehlenberg's commentary on issues of the day... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:27:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nola Drum http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/09/26/another-clone-and-kill-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-782 Nola Drum Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:26:14 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/09/26/another-clone-and-kill-bill/#comment-782 I. like you, am amazed to see Sen Patterson's backflip on cloning. Not only has she changed her mind but seemingly has introduced a Bill that is more disastrous (for embryos) than Sen Stott-Despojas. One wonders how much lower scientists (who after all are supposed to be creating a better world) can go in their quest for access to research material and why there are people in power who would support them in their degradation of the most innocent of humans. Nola Drum I. like you, am amazed to see Sen Patterson’s backflip on cloning. Not only has she changed her mind but seemingly has introduced a Bill that is more disastrous (for embryos) than Sen Stott-Despojas. One wonders how much lower scientists (who after all are supposed to be creating a better world) can go in their quest for access to research material and why there are people in power who would support them in their degradation of the most innocent of humans.

Nola Drum

]]> By: Neil E. Ryan http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/09/26/another-clone-and-kill-bill/comment-page-1/#comment-775 Neil E. Ryan Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:49:10 +0000 http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2006/09/26/another-clone-and-kill-bill/#comment-775 In 2005 the UN International community voted to ban cloning ‘ as contrary to human dignity’ expressing the principle– “ No human life should ever be produced to be destroyed for the benefit of another.” The clever dodge however, is to devise new terminology to avoid the very idea of cloning. Nevertheless, the procedural steps cannot be so avoided, for somatic cell nuclear transfer SCNT was the very process by which “Dolly” the sheep ‘clone’ was created by Prof. Ian Wilmut in 1997 at the Roslin Inst. in Edinbburgh. We should also remember that ‘Dolly’ died of premature old age merely as a consequence of the ‘nuclear cell transfer’ adaptation. This I would venture to suggest is not a great prospect for those hoping to have their lives extended by such technology. Neil E. Ryan, Melbourne In 2005 the UN International community voted to ban cloning ‘ as contrary to human dignity’ expressing the principle– “ No human life should ever be produced to be destroyed for the benefit of another.” The clever dodge however, is to devise new terminology to avoid the very idea of cloning. Nevertheless, the procedural steps cannot be so avoided, for somatic cell nuclear transfer SCNT was the very process by which “Dolly” the sheep ‘clone’ was created by Prof. Ian Wilmut in 1997 at the Roslin Inst. in Edinbburgh.

We should also remember that ‘Dolly’ died of premature old age merely as a consequence of the ‘nuclear cell transfer’ adaptation. This I would venture to suggest is not a great prospect for those hoping to have their lives extended by such technology.

Neil E. Ryan, Melbourne

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