I’m not sure whether that would be acceptible or not. There’s no new conception. But, we’d still be playing in God’s toybox.

In his book “The Immortal Cell,” Michael West spoke of experiments where he did exactly what you are talking about – and faced much criticism for it.

The dream solution would be to find a source of polypotent stem cells that:

1. Didn’t involve the destruction of a potential human.

2. Doesn’t involve the use of tissue that is painful to extract (harvesting human eggs is very painful).

3. Is readily available within the body of any given patient.

4. Is inexpensive

An inexpensive method for taken differentiated cells back to stem cell status would fit the bill nicely.

The doctor rubs a swab on the inside of the patient’s mouth. The cells are run through a process and viola! The patient has his own stem cell line.

Well, we can dream.

Would this method of therapuetic cloning be acceptable to pro-lifers? (Actually, I’m not entirely sure how or why it would be different from other techniques that might be used to create a human clone.)

Perhaps a similar trick could be used to extract
polypotent stem cells from male gametes. If this were possible, it would be a great development because of the ease obtaining these gametes, and their vast number.

Also, I wonder if stem cells obtained from eggs could be used at all in males – no Y chromosome.

Of course we learned that women who have male babies have XY stem cells in their bodies, so maybe its not a problem.”