THANK you for Fr Kevin McGovern’s succinct report on the cloning and embryo research review committee deliberations (Centrepoint, CL 23/10/11).
Cloning, whether “therapeutic” or “reproductive” is the same thing.
While the current empty promise of a breakthrough softens the public toward therapeutic cloning, reproductive cloning is regarded suspiciously.
Yet, the science is the same – cloning, by whatever technical means, results in an embryo.
A “therapeutic” embryo is destined for destruction, a “reproductive” embryo (in theory) destined for adult life.
It’s only a matter of which bin you put it in – the waste or recycling.
L McLINDON
Oxley, Qld
