Scientists will almost certainly use fewer eggs if therapeutic cloning is used on people.
The Radical Party wants to turn the spotlight on euthanasia, therapeutic cloning and freedom of scientific research.
That's because therapeutic cloning is a fantasy, one that belongs to the modern religion, the religion of technocracy.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
Publicly traded companies that have advocated the use of therapeutic cloning are struggling.
Britain has legalised such cloning in medical research, also known as therapeutic cloning.
But I think what makes me even angrier as a scientist is the hype and false promises around therapeutic cloning.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
Therapeutic cloning was dead and buried years ago, but it just seems to keep on going, and so do people's hopes.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
There is definitely something weird here, something that brings out religious terminology like "the Holy Grail of medicine" around therapeutic cloning.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
People often say to me that scientists pursuing therapeutic cloning are "just trying to make money, " but the truth is worse.
CNN: Human stem cell cloning: 'Holy Grail' or techno-fantasy?
So this makes cloning, human therapeutic cloning, a feasible reality for everybody.
But one thing evident from their research: Such therapeutic cloning could be a very expensive treatment, more costly than even the priciest drugs.
Basel, Switzerland-based Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) convened an ethics board that likewise decided human therapeutic cloning would be unethical.
Another issue, raised in an editorial in Science by Stanford bioethicists, is the lack of ethical safeguards for women who donate eggs to be used in therapeutic cloning research.
"Therapeutic cloning has tremendous, tremendous healing potential, but we have to open so many doors before human trials, " lead researcher Hwang Woo-suk of Seoul National University said in a telephone interview.
Pro-life groups want both reproductive and therapeutic cloning banned.
"Somatic cell nuclear transfer does not relate to cloning, and the people who call it therapeutic cloning are creating a lot of confusion, because it is not cloning at all, and it certainly is not reproductive cloning, " Specter said.
The Vatican has over recent decades issued blanket condemnations of artificial methods of birth control, in-vitro fertilization, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and human embryonic stem cell research.
That is likely to spook lawmakers who already voted in the House of Representatives to make all human cloning, including the therapeutic kind, illegal.
On November 22nd, the government published new legislation permitting therapeutic, but explicitly outlawing reproductive, cloning.
In March the United Nations abandoned its bid to impose a blanket ban on human cloning because of opposition from countries that support embryonic research for therapeutic purposes.
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