J.C. Corcoran Reveals His Ignorance about Cloning Issues

... And in all fairness, it should be noted that this is likely to happen anytime he opens his mouth to speak. That having been noted, here is an email I received from Jaci Winship...

For everything there is a season. There is a "time to be silent and a time to speak." Please call K-HITS 96FM at (314) 621-4106 to protest morning show host J. C. Corcoran's comments that Vitae Care Foundations' television ad is "totally made up."

J. C. Corcoran reported on Tuesday morning September 26 that he has never heard of anyone experiencing kidney failure or experiencing infertility from ovarian stimulation or egg extraction. However, real women have been hospitalized and some have died from egg harvesting.

The truth is:

5% to 14% of women who "donate" their eggs will experience blood clotting, kidney or liver damage, future infertility, and while rare, death. 1

In fact, 20% of the 129 women who participated in South Korean Woo-suk Hwang's discredited study experienced medical complications.2

Amendment 2 does not protect women from exploitation because it allows women to be paid by fertilization clinics for their eggs and researchers can legally purchase those eggs from fertility clinics (see Section 6, Article 17).

"It would take - thousands of eggs on an assembly line' to produce a custom therapy for a single person."
-Thomas Okarma, Geron Corporation3

By some estimates, at least 80 million women will need to "donate" eggs for researchers to treat the 16 million diabetes patients in the US.
- David Prentice, PH.D, former stem cell researcher4

Please call K-HITS at (314) 621-4106 or email feedback@k-hits.com immediately to make sure the J. C. Corcoran hears truth about the documented medical health risks of egg harvesting.

Now is the time to speak out against the minimization of the real risks women face during ovarian hyperstimulation and egg extraction. Visit www.votenocloning.com for more information on how egg harvesting endangers women.

Jaci Winship
Executive Director

1 Duke University Medical Center, Information for Oocyte, accessed on-line April 11 2006 at http://www2.mc.duke.edu/depts/obgyn/ivf/donor1.htm. David Magnus, Mildred K Cho, "Issues in Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research," Science Espress, May 19, 2005. referenced in Carrie Gordon Earll, Women's Voices Against Cloning, Ed. Dawn Vargo, Focus on the Family, Colorado Springs: 2006.

2 Global News Wire - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire, January 14, 2006 referenced in Women's Voices Against Cloning.

3 Women's Voices Against Cloning.

4 Testimony of Dr. David A. Prentice, Ph.D. to Legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, senate Judiciary Committee, hearing on Human Cloning Ban, H. 138, March 20, 2002 referenced in Women's Voices Against Cloning

I almost never listen to this station - it's extraordinarily irritating to listen to JC's pompass, arrogant yet mentally challenged ramblings and blatherings. He's in desperate need of prayers for his conversion. Perhaps, if he chooses to respond to God's call, he will return to the Catholic faith.