"During the next 35 years," Peter Singer wrote last year, "the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments.(The Week)(Brief article)

* "During the next 35 years," Peter Singer wrote last year, "the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hardcore, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct. In retrospect, 2005 may be seen as the year in which that position became untenable." The chief reason for this collapse? "The South Korean breakthrough" in cloning human embryos to produce stem cells. In Newsweek, Jonathan Alter wrote that "the brilliant scientific breakthrough in South Korea" would ...