MEDICAL GROUP REACTS TO CLONING PROPOSAL

BRISTOL, Tenn., Jan. 7 (LSN) – The Christian Medical & Dental Society (CMDS), which represents over 11,500 doctors and medical students nationwide, condemned plans announced this week to begin cloning humans for profit. Dr. David Stevens, noted that in order to clone one would have to sacrifice hundreds of lives just to attempt the procedure. “Cloning a single animal,  the sheep Dolly, involved the deaths of 277 developing embryos and resulted in some duplicate lambs being born with severe and lethal birth defects”, Dr. Stevens explained.  “We all sympathize with infertile couples, but is it worth paying the price in human lives and suffering to come up with an experimental baby?”  Richard G. Seed, who announced his plans to clone humans for profit this week, told CNN that plans to begin his work on a human clone within three months. “My target is to produce a two-month pregnant female (within the next 18 months),” he said. Speaking about Seed, Dr.  Stevens noted, “This individual’s scheme is evidence that current executive and legislative efforts to curtail human cloning are flawed and need to be strengthened.”