Scientists Still Pushing for Human Cloning Amid Media Blackout

Scientists Still Pushing for Human Cloning Amid Media Blackout | LifeNews.com: "While the subject of cloning has not been in the news lately, people should realize that there are some scientists who still want human clones, and politicians pushing for approval of human cloning for experiments.

Back in October, UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee published a report suggesting a fresh look at the 2005 UN Declaration against all human cloning, as well as encouraging a change in cloning terminology to sanitize the production of cloned human embryos to make it more acceptable. The committee proposed “different options for legal regulation of human reproductive cloning (including the possibility of a moratorium)”, essentially opening the possibility of future born human clones.

Redefining cloning terminology has been tried before, in an attempt to disguise facts. “Reproductive cloning” means the production of cloned embryos and gestation for a live birth. “Therapeutic cloning” or “research cloning” means the production of cloned embryos for the purpose of destroying them in an attempt to get their embryonic stem cells.

The UNESCO committee proposed the following new definitions: define human “reproductive cloning” as using the linear DNA nucleotide sequence of an existing human being to create an embryo, which is implanted into womb with the purpose to produce human baby."