Embattled running sensation Caster Semenya dropped out of a race Saturday following a newspaper report that claims she's a hermaphrodite.
Mabusi, we once communicated about Caster and we never shared the ideas further. What do you think will happen to Caster now that the situation is as is. Do you think is the end of her career or she still has a chance. Will it be fair if that will be the route she will be forced to take?
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
More and more on cloning
Human Cloning Ethics
Surveys have shown that few Americans approve of cloning for reproductive purposes, although more are open to therapeutic cloning [source: Burton]. The U.S. government has established strategic roadblocks related to human cloning, although no federal ban exists. First, the government won't fund research focused on human cloning for reproduction. Also, the FDA, which regulates public cloning research, requires anyone in the United States attempting to clone humans to first get its permission. President George W. Bush's appointed Council on Bioethics unanimously opposed cloning for reproductive purposes.
Human reproductive cloning is banned in more than 50 countries.
Certain countries abroad have stricter standards, and more than 50 have legally banned research efforts on reproductive human cloning.
While the ethics of human cloning are being examined, some people suggest that cloning be banned. Italy and Argentina were two of the first countries to follow this advice.
Experience in animals has demonstrated time and time again that the technique usually fails: many embryos are malformed, and many are abnormally oversized, posing risks both to offspring and mother. Whether it would be "ethical", if incontrovertibly safe, is a whole new debate. But there's no doubt that if a cloned baby is ever verifiably produced, the scientist behind it will achieve lifelong fame – or possibly infamy.
Im also not of the idea of human cloning, but animals????????? What do you think.
How will it be, just to clone sheep, cows, chickens and have more supply for human consumption!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Surveys have shown that few Americans approve of cloning for reproductive purposes, although more are open to therapeutic cloning [source: Burton]. The U.S. government has established strategic roadblocks related to human cloning, although no federal ban exists. First, the government won't fund research focused on human cloning for reproduction. Also, the FDA, which regulates public cloning research, requires anyone in the United States attempting to clone humans to first get its permission. President George W. Bush's appointed Council on Bioethics unanimously opposed cloning for reproductive purposes.
Human reproductive cloning is banned in more than 50 countries.
Certain countries abroad have stricter standards, and more than 50 have legally banned research efforts on reproductive human cloning.
While the ethics of human cloning are being examined, some people suggest that cloning be banned. Italy and Argentina were two of the first countries to follow this advice.
Experience in animals has demonstrated time and time again that the technique usually fails: many embryos are malformed, and many are abnormally oversized, posing risks both to offspring and mother. Whether it would be "ethical", if incontrovertibly safe, is a whole new debate. But there's no doubt that if a cloned baby is ever verifiably produced, the scientist behind it will achieve lifelong fame – or possibly infamy.
Im also not of the idea of human cloning, but animals????????? What do you think.
How will it be, just to clone sheep, cows, chickens and have more supply for human consumption!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, September 11, 2009
More on cloning
What is cloning?
Cloning is the creation of an organism that is a genetic replica of another.Two organisms which are clones have identical genes, but differ in characteristics that are acquired in other ways. This does not preclude human beings.
Interesting to know...
Biologists have been cloning some organisms, such as carrots, for decades. Attempts to clone animals have been far less successful until Dolly came along in 1997.The efforts failed because the cloned animals were nearly always very unhealthy newborns and did not survive for long. There is no reason to believe that human clones would fare any better in terms of health or survivability than most cloned animals do....but the efforts continue.
Well...
One cannot dispute that Science and Technology has benefited humanity in innumerable ways, I suppose we have arrived at this point through pushing the envelope just a little further each time, the flipside of the coin is that it appears that the point at which the line needs to be drawn has been blurred. The line that may be morality, religion....something that may appeal more to our innate human nature versus our acquired human nature.
Who are we to create 'life'????
My view is that we seek to assign to ourselves priviledges that are sacred to the universe. Are we happy to destroy the element of divinity which we enjoy, where we know or sense that there is a greater source who gives and takes away life, be it animal or human?
What are the benefits of cloning and are they worth the cost of our innocence.
Cloning is the creation of an organism that is a genetic replica of another.Two organisms which are clones have identical genes, but differ in characteristics that are acquired in other ways. This does not preclude human beings.
Interesting to know...
Biologists have been cloning some organisms, such as carrots, for decades. Attempts to clone animals have been far less successful until Dolly came along in 1997.The efforts failed because the cloned animals were nearly always very unhealthy newborns and did not survive for long. There is no reason to believe that human clones would fare any better in terms of health or survivability than most cloned animals do....but the efforts continue.
Well...
One cannot dispute that Science and Technology has benefited humanity in innumerable ways, I suppose we have arrived at this point through pushing the envelope just a little further each time, the flipside of the coin is that it appears that the point at which the line needs to be drawn has been blurred. The line that may be morality, religion....something that may appeal more to our innate human nature versus our acquired human nature.
Who are we to create 'life'????
My view is that we seek to assign to ourselves priviledges that are sacred to the universe. Are we happy to destroy the element of divinity which we enjoy, where we know or sense that there is a greater source who gives and takes away life, be it animal or human?
What are the benefits of cloning and are they worth the cost of our innocence.
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