ELSEWHERE: Is Human Cloning on Its Way?

1. That article is deceptively worded, as have been many of the reports on this issue. Scientists are not “one step closer” to human cloning. What they’ve just done IS human cloning. The scientists created the embryos, then killed them to harvest their cells. Here is a better written article that makes it clearer what is really going on:

   http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/15/183916891/scientists-clone-human-embryos-to-make-stem-cells

   1. Oh. My bad. If this is the fact, then we’re in an interesting position. Thanks for clarifying!

   2. No, it’s not your bad! Many pro-lifers have innocently re-posted a lot of these misleading articles. It’s the press who should answer for this.

2. don’t count your clones until they hatch…http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/23/186246916/seeing-double-errors-in-stem-cell-cloning-paper-raise-doubts

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