New poll/old poll
New poll
Please be sure to vote on this week’s poll, in the right column. Then comment here on this post, not on the poll website. The question is:
Upon news last week that an intact, frozen, baby wooly mammoth had been discovered, talk started of cloning it. What do you think about cloning nonhumans like animals and plants?
Old poll
Last week, 76 of you answered this question, 1/3 more than the poll before:
On June 29, its legislature made New Hampshire the first state to repeal its law mandating that at least one parent be notified before his/her minor daughter aborts. Do you agree or disagree with this decision?
Here is the vote breakdown, including whereabouts of respondents, which I thought you’d find interesting. Click to enlarge:
Jul.16, 2007 6:38 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Upon news last week that an intact, frozen, baby wooly mammoth had been discovered, talk started of cloning it. What do you think about cloning nonhumans like animals and plants?
Definitely for it. If we could clone extinct species, there is so much we could learn about the natural world, and it gives us a chance to save the endangered species of the world as well.
I think,
perhaps there is a lack-of-understanding about the way this technology is being used today. [Give me a hand eh Cam?] … there are many medications [thyroid and insulin] that are not well tolerated by many people. This technology: manufacture human insulin (extremely expensive) by manipulating a gene to produce human insulin in cow’s milk (very inexpensive). There are literally hundreds of ways these techniques can aid us … one plan is to get a larger beast to massively produce the fibers in a spider’s web. This fiber is much stronger than steel but extremely light … for tennis rackets, cargo carriers … paper for contracts; [how about a very light engine block for your car?] … no destruction … on and on. This science effort is very versatile and we would be wise to study about it. Cloning is a remote side line … a very expensive one at that!
“one plan is to get a larger beast to massively produce the fibers in a spider’s web. This fiber is much stronger than steel but extremely light”
wow, I didn’t realize that John, interesting..