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Harvesting human organs is beyond barbaric, it's unimaginably grotesque and evil,» he said.»
Harvesting human organs to be sold like brake pads for a Buick is beyond barbaric, it's immoral, grotesque, & evil.
Not exact matches
Yet surely the Church's role in any possibly humane Chinese future will be built around its steadfastness under persecution and its forthright defense of the
human rights of all (including Uighurs, Tibetans, and Falun Gong devotees), not by reaching agreements with those who may well have
harvested organs from Catholic dissidents, pioneering a new form of martyrdom.
If one considers cloning, the storing of
human fetuses for research purposes and
organ harvesting, and the whole field of genetic manipulation, no one can fail to have noticed the slow erosion of
human dignity that threatens us.
When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a student finds himself confronted with the reality that not only do extraterrestrials actually exist, but they are taking possession of
humans,
harvesting the
organs, and implanting them with mysterious devices.
It may feature science fiction tropes such as being set in some alternate universe in which
human cloning existed since the 1960s as well as clones being
harvested for their
organs, hardly an original idea (see the 1979 movie The Clonus Horror, which was understandably spoofed by Mystery Science Theater 3000).
Set in an alternate history in which scientists have found a way to greatly extend people's lives by
harvesting human clones whose only purpose is to grow up and donate their vital
organs, «Never Let Me Go» seems to be an allegory about the elusive nature of life and death.
However welcome the recent announcement that a team of scientists based at Newcastle University, has grown a section of
human liver using stem cells from umbilical cords, rather than from the more controversial source of embryonic stem cells, and whatever the eventual promise or potential of
harvesting organs for transplantation from genetically modified pigs, the benefits of either of these two pioneering techniques to currently dying / suffering patients, remain both elusive and distant.