Re: I want to buy a bowel (was RE: organ donation)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 21:09:30 MST


At 01:43 PM 2/26/02 -0800, Jeff wrote:

>Replacement organs from pigs--
>
>http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/shc-ibi022502.php
>
>could be close. When they become available, it will
>mean multiple organ systems in great abundance, with
>near zero ethical problems

>transgenic pigs might then be employed--would
>immunocompatibility work both ways do you think?-- as
>hosts for the growing of individual personal--ie "your
>own tissue"-- replacement parts using stem cell
>cloning techniques.

12. Once the bowel of the swine is removed from beast to man,
13. Thous shalt not eat the discard meat and flesh thereof!
14. For this is cannibalism and self-pollution,
15. And most foul in the eyes of the Lord!

Damien Broderick
[Bespoke ethical quandaries for the New Age, alterations cloned within 24
hours!]



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