"Mature Human Embryos Created From Adult Skin Cells"

Source: Rick Weiss, The Washington Post, January 18, 2008.

I quote:

Scientists at a California company reported yesterday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin cells taken from adults, a significant advance toward the goal of growing personalized stem cells for patients suffering from various diseases.

Comment: Is the Bush administration now going to insist that stem cells from embryos produced in this way not be used for research (or therapy)? Do they believe that embryos created from skin cells should not be destroyed if they are not to be used. Do they want us to seek to use them to impregnate women? If not, why not? If so, why?

I think the folk who believe that an embryo of human cells is a human being with rights to life are now going to have to face the conceptual problems of their possition. JAD