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Help Combat "Media Myths" on Human Cloning Bills!
As Congress debates the human cloning issue, many news reports continue to contain distortions regarding what the competing cloning bills would allow and what they would forbid. Some use explanations and terminology that give readers or viewers a distorted picture of what the argument is really about.
The public deserves an honest debate on the critically important issue of human cloning! You can help combat these damaging "media myths" by informing yourself and then politely challenging journalists and others who disseminate distortions to the public on this issue.
NRLC has posted on its website a paper titled "Human Cloning: Misconceptions and Distortions," written by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, which gives examples of these "media myths" on human cloning, and provides documentation that will allow you to challenge such distortions. You can read or download the paper at http://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/cloningbackrounder 021003.html.
For example, watch for news stories or editorials that contain any of these common distortions:
* The claim that the bills that would allow "therapeutic cloning" would only allow research on human "cells," or on "eggs," or on "unfertilized eggs." In reality, these bills allow and encourage human embryos to be created by cloning and then killed in biomedical research.
* The claim that the bills that would ban all human cloning, such as those supported by NRLC and by President Bush, would restrict "stem cell research," or prohibit research on "human eggs" or "human cells." In reality, neither ...
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...adapted from remarks by NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson...upcoming Senate debate over human cloning, see the news story that...legislation pertaining to human cloning. That debate is expected...reservations about all forms of human cloning, but now he seems ...
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...Congress to ban all human cloning during his January...are opposed to all human cloning and to "human embryo...the only real ban on human cloning, the Brownback...or state name, the NRLC Legislative Action Center will...
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...understanding the attitudes toward human cloning in Taiwan among professionals in healthcare...represented major arguments in the human cloning debate. There were a total of six...1 representing strong opposition to human cloning, 3 representing a neutral attitude...
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...could live to regret. Science now presses forward the issue of human cloning. How we answer the question of human cloning will place us on one path or the other. Human cloning is the laboratory production of individuals who are genetically...
Source: HighBeam Research, Help Combat "Media Myths" on Human Cloning Bills!