Clinton: OK to experiment on 'unfertilized embryos'

"Gupta asked Clinton, '[L]et me just ask you, as someone who studied this, is this going to always be as divisive an issue as it is now? Is this going to be the abortion of the next generation? Or are people going to come around?'"

Clinton said scientists must be careful to use only embryos that "have been placed beyond the pale of being fertilized before their use."

Human embroyo at approximately five weeks

During the interview, Gupta, a neurosurgeon and Obama's former pick for surgeon general, failed to clarify that a human embryo is by definition an egg that has been fertilized for several days and that creation of stem cell lines requires its destruction.