• Hirom@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Human being grown raises so many question: who are the legal parents, can they inherit, who’s responsible for the chid education and welfare, what’s the effect on culture, what’s the effect of human generic diversity and evolution.

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      1 year ago

      At the moment these artificial “embroys” aren’t really human beings though, any more than a kidney is a whole ass person. These clumps of cells don’t grow lungs, a brain, or any of the other structures required to form a full person and they are extremely unlikely to form viable pregnancies if implanted into a womb.

      The ethical questions are likely to be more related to how long scientists should be allowed to grow these artificial embryos for in a lab and more generally whether the laws for scientific growth of real human embryos should apply to artificial ones or if the potential benefits outweigh the ickyness.