Reclaiming my time once again, I am not sure, with all due respect, that my friend from New Jersey understands this process. You cannot, you cannot, you cannot take one cloned entity and multiply it. You have to go back and get another egg. The gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) described how extraordinarily difficult it is to get one egg. You have to find a woman who is willing to be superovulated and give up an egg to science. You cannot multiply that egg into more embryos. You can make one. So, Mr. Chairman, I ask the gentleman again, can the gentleman explain the science by which he claims that we are going to wind up with, as he said, embryo stockpiles, embryo farms? Where do these thousands of eggs that the gentleman describes in this fictitious nightmare come from?
James P. Greenwood: “Reclaiming my time once again, I am not sure, with all due respect, that my friend from New Jersey understands this…”
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Discussing the scientific limitations of cloning and embryo creation during a debate.
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