[Yaelle]

What the article and you are describing sounds like human cloning, no? How is this even allowed by law?

Oh, and just to add to your great description of the process of human generation: actually a couple dozen unfertilized eggs are lost in each menstrual period. Only one (or two) may have actually ripened, but there are usually between 10 and 30 unripened follicles that are destroyed with each cycle.

[Former Fetus]

Exactly. Some people seem to believe that, if no babies are born, it is not cloning. The key to this issue is that any technique that involves introducing somatic DNA into an oocyte from which the nucleus has been removed, IS CLONING. The latest bill that was in front of Congress promised that all embryos formed by cloning would have to be killed by the time they reached 14 days of age. Somehow, killing them made cloning all right in the eyes of certain people!

Earlier this month the House rejected the "clone-and-kill measure", and pres. Bush has vetoed the stem cell research bill because it would have allowed for the cloning on human embryos. A showdown is about to take place in the Senate, where they will try to override pres. Bush's veto. If you care about this issues, please contact your senator and ask him/her to oppose S5.

Anybody who wants to learn more about the "legalities" of human cloning, go to National Right to Life Committee