Romney and Bush have both been pushing this “altered nuclear transfer” garbage, trying to pawn it off as moral, and many of us have been trying to wake people up to the fact that they’re cloning embryos, and killing human beings. But you have done a far better job at destroying this myth than anyone I’ve seen. Thanks.
Unfortunately, the ANT depends far too much on who is contemplating carrying it out. Dr. Hurlbut (and, I believe President Bush, since I know his advisors are Dr. Hurlbut, Dr. Prentice, Dr. Cameron and Mr. Doerflinger) would do the animal research first.
In contrast, far too many (whose main agenda is to justify destruction of the human embryo) would jump to using human DNA.
It’s amazing to me that we keep hearing what a crisis the Bush policy has created, and yet we read this report, ACT’s several experiments to prove that hESCs can be made without harming embryos, etc. Doesn’t look like there’s a great shortage of embryos, oocytes, or money to me!
Thanks! I wish my students were so appreciative of my efforts! :-)