What ACTC was trying to show by the study was that stem cell lines from embryos with 8 cells could be created. They accomplished this. The survival of the embryo by this procedure is already established and in fact many children are alive today who have had a cell taken out at the 8 cell stage for genetic testing. The idea of not allowing the embryos to survive was not the issue. They decided to be efficient with the embryos and remove many cells and obviously they would not survive after this procedure. Otherwise they would have had to experiment on many more embryos. Why waste extra embryos if you don't have to. They were not going to take 91 embryos, keep them alive and say - here you go make babies out of them now. Not for this kind of study. I understood this from day one!!
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