The difficulties associated with obtaining nerve tissue at the correct stage of development and differentiation from aborted embryos means that foetal tissue transplantation is no longer in favour, but the creation
of human embryos specifically as sources of stem cells, and the push to use «spare» embryos from IVF treatments is gatheringmomentum.
In its website alert, the MCCL said: «This legislation would
specifically permit the University
of Minnesota to destroy living
human embryos for experimentation and to clone and kill
human beings — and use taxpayer dollars to do so.»