>From: GBurch1@aol.com
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: SOC/BIO: Rifkin on Human Genetic Engineering in the LA Times
>Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 18:41:05 EST
>The
>patents have been licensed to Geron Corp., a California-based biotech
>company. There is something more, however. The patent also includes as
>intellectual property--i.e., patented inventions--all cloned human embryos
>up to the blastocyst stage, which is a cluster of about 140 cells. For the
>first time, a national government has declared that a specific human being
>created through the process of cloning is, at its earliest phase of
>development, to be considered an invention in the eyes of the patent
>office.
This hypocrite piece of crap Rifkin; he scares the hell out of me. What is
his position on abortion, I wonder? Does he REALLY consider a 140-cell clump
a human being? I doubt it.
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