Failure, danger of cloning

"Therapeutic cloning" allows scientists to hide behind the guise of helping sick people while concealing the fact that the "therapy" was created through the destruction of living human embryos.

Human cloning failure While tens of millions of dollars have been spent on human cloning, researchers haven't been able to extract embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo. A researcher from South Korea named Hwang Woo-Suk made headlines in 2004 and 2005 by claiming his lab was able to create cloned human embryos and extract embryonic stem cells from these embryos. His research was published in the prestigious journal Science, and he was lauded as a national hero in South Korea. This came to a screeching halt in December of 2005 when his university determined Hwang's research was fabricated. He was eventually fired in March of 2006. The South Korean government and private donors had poured tens of millions of dollars into this cloning research which didn't produce anything close to treatments.

Back to the Table of Contents