[MHGinTN]

The goal of therapeutic cloning is to conceive a close genetic match for the parent genetic donor, give life support to the newly conceived individual human life until the tissues targeted for harvesting differentiate sufficiently for exact identification. The killing of the cloned individual human life is then done and the body parts are harvested and put to a 'higher use'. Boys, that's cannibalizing individual human life any way you cut it.

[GovernmentShrinker]

1) I am not a boy. I am a 41 year old woman.

2) Therapeutic cloning research is in its earliest stages so your amateur pronouncements of what it will consist of are ridiculous. The obvious goal, which will likely be achieved, is to learn how to direct the undifferentiated blastocyst to produce ONLY the type of tissue which is needed for the therapeutic procedure at hand. Note that researchers have already managed to get some cells planted on the side of a mouse to grow into a human ear -- these cells were not from an embryonic source (as cartilage can be grown from samples taken from mature humans), but this is the type of approach which cloning research will almost certainly focus on.

While people like you are running around spreading alarmist misinformation, real scientists are doing real research, and many of us don't want the government throwing up obstacles to their research.