Embryo Biopsy

I don't have enough time this morning to respond to Robert George's  -- as always -- thoughtful and interesting post, though I hope to get to it later.  (My initial take is that even stripping away all the dissimilarities --  imagine that the infants are orphans under general anesthesia, etc. --  we would still favor the infants and that the differential treatment has something to do with the probability of developing into a mature human being, but I need to read and think about his post more carefully.)

I did want to post a link very kindly sent to me by Ryan Anderson (of First Things) in response to my question about removing one cell from an embryo in order to create stem cells for research.  Ryan posted something on this on First Things a while back, and I thought our readers might find his reflections interesting and informative.  Here's the link.