Friday, March 13, 2009

Former President Clinton Does Not Understand What an Embryo is

It appears that former President Clinton does not understand what an embryo is. As you will see in the video he says that more people will support embryonic stem cell research when the realize that the embryos would not be fertilized and under no possible scenario could become little babies. Slight problem with Clinton's analysis. Embryos are already fertilized. It is possible for them to become little babies if they were put into a womb.

Initially I thought he may be trying to distinguish between 'harvesting' embryos where eggs are fertilized for the purposed of being destroyed for embryonic stem cell research, and 'left over' embryos from the in vitro fertilization which will likely never be used (or put in a womb). The problem with that initial thought was how adamant he was repeating over and over again that the embryos being used for research would not be fertilized not have any possibility of becoming babies. Either he does not understand the important facts here or he is purposely misleading people. My guess is the former, but I could not help but notice how Dr. Sanjay Gupta let him make the mistake over and over again without correcting him.

Video embedded below. (From http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2009/03/gupta_lets_talk.html)

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