Human/Animal DNA Research

This is just plain sick. I don't think even Mary Shelly could have dreamed up something like this.

"HUMAN-cow embryos have been created in a world first at Newcastle University in England, hailed by the scientific community, but labelled "monstrous" by opponents.

A team has grown hybrid embryos after injecting human DNA into eggs taken from cows' ovaries, which had most of their genetic material removed.

The embryos survived for three days and are intended to provide a limitless supply of stem cells to develop therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal cord injuries, overcoming a worldwide shortfall in human embryos." News.com

The part about having "a limitless supply of stem cells" gives some insight into the embryo research mentality. They think simply because they are able to artificially introduce a sperm and and egg that they have created life and therefore own it. The problem they have is that this is a difficult point for them to argue, after all, if they have the right to do whatever they want with it before it's born than why not afterward? From the moment of conception the unborn baby is composed of cells, and has his or her own unique set of human DNA, so they can't argue that he or she is not alive or human. But if they make some changes to the DNA, than they can say it's not human, so there's nothing wrong with tampering with it.

So now the question is if one of these human/animal creatures is born will it be given equal rights to humans? If it isn't considered equal to humans will scientists be allowed to experiment on it? This is a reasonable question since the whole point of making human/animals was so that they would be allowed to experiment on them.