International Daily Newswire:

UK Scientists Seek to Create Human-Cow Embryos

NEWCASTLE, UK, November 6, 2006 (ENS) - Stem cell scientists have applied for permission to create embryos by combining human DNA with cow eggs. Their research aims to develop new therapies for human ailments such as strokes, Alzheimer's and tissue damage suffered by spinal trauma victims. Critics say the mixing of animal and human DNA is unethical and should be illegal...

If granted, the HFEA licence would allow the scientists to create hybrid embryos that would be 0.1 percent animal and 99.9 percent human, using an established technique known as nuclear transfer, or therapeutic cloning.

In other words, by adding a few bits of cow DNA, they're free to create and grow what are essentially humans. Ah, but it's "therapeutic" cloning, meaning they promise to abort the fetus before it gets too far. Who needs abortion clinics? We can do it in the lab.