by intern Anne Marie D.
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs…

Professor Nayernia, who is calling for a debate on the use of his breakthrough, said the sperm created was not perfect but had all the essential qualities for creating life.
He said: “This is very amazing and very exciting. They have heads, they have tails and they move. The shape is not quite normal nor the movement, but they contain the proteins for egg activation….”
Nayernia said the work was in its early stages and more investigation was needed to decide whether such sperm would be safe or suitable as a fertility treatment – although this is currently against the law.
The mice [conceived] in his earlier experiment all died shortly after they were born.

Nayernia also claimed, “within a decade such a treatment could be offered to, for example, young boys who had received chemotherapy which can leave them infertile.”
Additionally, Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, an assisted conception and genetics charity, mused, “This would be a novel way to solve the shortage of donor sperm in the UK.”
The only voice of reason in the Telegraph article came from Josephine Quintaville of Comment on Reproductive Ethics:

This is man at his maddest. I think that sometimes we have to stop meddling and accept infertility. Science must be totally ethical and totally safe – this is neither.