Male Rats Giving Birth Shows Need to Regulate Biotechnology

Male Rats Giving Birth Shows Need to Regulate Biotechnology
A worker holds a white rat at the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy established by the West China Medical School of Sichuan University in Chengdu of Sichuan Province, southwest China, on Aug. 3, 2005. China Photos/Getty Images
Wesley J. Smith
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Biotechnology is being harnessed to accelerate social-revolutionary policies and cross what once were immutable moral boundaries. The latest example occurred in China—where scientific ethics go to die. Here’s the story: Two Shanghai-based researchers surgically attached male and female rats. They then transplanted uteruses into male rats and ensured that the females’ blood nurtured the organs now in the male bodies.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
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Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
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