Jersey

Where is your proof for "she fails to explain that unlike creating babies through IVF, attempting to create a single human clone for experimentation requires hundreds of women’s eggs"

I assume you are extrapolating the 227 eggs used to clone "Dolly" but this is NOT what this issue is about.

It takes ONE egg to create a hESC line. Embryonic stem cell lines are created from embryos. A single cell from the embryo is placed in a petri dish (without agar) and provided with nutrients and growth factors that simulate those found in the womb. The resulting cell line will continue to divide indefinately as long as it receives sufficient chemical signals telling it to stay undifferentiated.

More uninformed spin from people with their own agendas, as I have constantly said, INFORMED CONSENT, not SPIN.

Steve,

You obviously know the subject under discussion, respect mate, and you correctly raise the point - in upper case no less - about informed consent.

But further to ethical practice and about being informed, I think Jersey makes an extremely valid point here about Cannold - so called ethecist - and her failure to DISCLOSE HER INTERESTS.

That's what troubles me about this issue and Cannold herself. She presents to readers as being squeaky clean, yet as Jersey points out, she fails to acknowledge her diverse associations with para-political organisations in this field.

It states at the foot of the OLO article the following and it does NOT disclose the information revealed in Jersey's post, which is of some serious significance to readers of this matter - "Dr Leslie Cannold is a researcher, writer, commentator and medical ethicist at the Centre for Gender and Medicine at Monash University. She is the author of The Abortion Myth: feminism, morality and the hard choice women make (1998/2000) and What, No Baby? Why women have lost the freedom to mother and how they can get it back (2005)."

Perhaps Jersey is incorrect. I don't know. But if Cannold is connected as Jersey suggests above, then as a point of ETHICS, Cannold should have gone to explicit pains to make these matters very known and very clear to all of us readers.

If the assertions made by Jersey are incorrect, I believe Cannold should post here to dispell any misunderstandings that may have been created and to set the record straight about her associations.