Some bioethicists are gravely concerned about the creation of chimera
embryos. “You’re getting into unsettling ground that I think is damaging to our sense of humanity,” Stuart Newman, a professor of cell biology and anatomy at the New York Medical College, told NPR.”If you have pigs with partly human brains you would have animals that might actually have consciousness like a human,” Newman says. “It might have human-type needs. We don’t really know.”
Bioedge article: Experimentation continues on chimera embryos
S.T. Lloyd commentary: It is interesting to note the different quotes used by NPR in the above article , vs the quote chosen by the Christian Post below:
Jason Robert, a bioethicist at Arizona State University, adds: “One of the concerns that a lot of people have is that there’s something sacrosanct about what it means to be human expressed in our DNA. And that by inserting that into other animals and giving those other animals potentially some of the capacities of humans that this could be a kind of violation — a kind of, maybe, even a playing God.”
Serve Him in the Waiting 