Laura Ingraham Explains The Deception Behind Amendment 2

Laura Ingraham on O’Reilly - Facts on the cloning bill

Laura Ingraham is spot on in this interview! She is right that majorities in public opinion polls oppose human cloning for any reason. For example, in a 2005 poll published by Virginia Commonwealth University, 59% opposed “using human cloning technology IF it is used to create human embryos that will provide stem cells for human therapeutic purposes.”

The authors of Amendment 2 knew that, of course, which is why they deceptively redefined the term “cloning a human being” from its accurate scientific definition of somatic cell nuclear transfer, to a profoundly deceptive advocacy definition of implanting the product of SCNT into a womb. But implantation is no more cloning than implanting an embryo during IVF fertility treatments is fertilization.

And Ingraham was also right when she stated she suspected that Fox had not read Amendment 2, which he has since admitted.

The entire cloning debate is crucial to the American future. People deserve the facts so that they can make properly reasoned ethical choices. Those, such as the authors of Amendment 2 who use deceptive tactics to win a political debate, demonstrate a profound disrespect for democracy.