Similar to Nazi Experiments in Producing ‘Superior People’

By Amy Contrada
August 16, 2001

When Aldous Huxley’s prescient masterpiece, Brave New World, was written in 1932, it was in the shadow of the Soviet’s totalitarianism, and in anticipation of the twin Nazi atrocities of genocide and eugenics. It is a believable and chilling portrait of a dehumanized society, where Shakespeare and Rembrandt are banned, and “mother” is an obscene word. It has disturbing implications for us today -- especially in Massachusetts, where Advanced Cell Technology is on the forefront of human cloning research.

Ray Neary, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, tells Massachusetts News that Advanced Cell “is obviously brazen in their efforts to get publicity. They want to be first on the scene with human cloning. In my opinion, they are breaking the law. What they are doing is scary. It’s a throwback to the eugenics of the 1930s in Germany. And their style is not much different than the Nazis’ in their lack of moral parameters. The more the public becomes aware of what is going on there, the better.”

A few people were alarmed enough about their work two years ago to hold a demonstration against “cow man,” the human clone that had been produced by a scientist from his own skin cell implanted in an emptied-out cow egg cell. This mostly human, one-millionth-part cow clone was destroyed after a few days. This research was kept secret for several years.

When knowledge of the company’s venture into human cloning became public in 1998, the president of the National Catholic Bioethics Office (in Brighton), Dr. John Haas, had a five-and-a-half-hour-long conversation with President and CEO, Dr. Michael West. Haas told Massachusetts News that he tried to convince West to halt the human cloning research, but obviously was unsuccessful. A pro-life leader told Massachusetts News that West later misrepresented to him the content of the conversation with Haas, in an apparent attempt to defuse the impending public demonstration against “cow man.”

Testifying before the U.S. Senate in 1998 about this project, West said, “[I]t was, and is, the intent of [my company] to produce fully-human stem cells through the genetic modification of the bovine egg…”

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