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If it works well with other large mammals, what do you think would be the problem with humans? We aren’t that different.



That we aren't that different is why there's an ethical problem.


Unless the prenatal environment for a human is the same as say, for a gorilla, so that a gorilla could be a surrogate parent for a human, I wouldn't expect the animal testing to be an acceptable way to know how a human baby would turn out.

I also imagine it's pretty difficult to do mental health screening on a gorilla, let alone extrapolate to whether a human baby would turn out physically okay but mentally not so great.




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