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Prof. John Gearhart tells reporters the truth: "therapeutic cloning" produces a human embryo, no longer an "egg".(Brief Article)
For political purposes, some supporters of human cloning for research (so-called "therapeutic cloning") have in recent times tried to pretend that it is not really "cloning," or that it does not really produce a "human embryo." Fortunately, some other supporters of cloning are more intellectually honest on these points - - among these Dr. John Gearhart of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University.
On February 26, 2003, Reps. Jim Greenwood (R-Pa.) and Peter Deutsch (D-Fl.) held a press conference on Capitol Hill to promote their legislation to permit "therapeutic cloning." (For details on this "clone and kill" bill, which was rejected by the House the following day, see the story that begins on page 1 of this issue.)
Early in the press conference, Congressman Deutsch told the assembled reporters that because the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) (i.e., cloning) does not involve "fertilization" by sperm, what it produces is merely "an egg, not an embryo."
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