From www.bioethics.gov/transcripts.html, transcript for April 25, 2002
http://www.bioethics.gov/meetings/200204/0425.doc

Cloning creates human "embryo," acknowledges leading stem-cell researcher

       Dr. John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, one of the discoverers of
human embryonic stem cells, told the President's Council on Bioethics on
April 25, 2002, that he thinks the product of cloning is and should be
called an "embryo."  He said:
       "I know that you are grappling with this [question of whether a cloned
embryo created in the lab is the same thing as an embryo produced by egg and
sperm, and whether we should call it an "embryo"], but anything that you
construct at this point in time that has the properties of those structures
to me is an embryo, and we should not be changing vocabulary at this point
in time.  It doesn't change some of the ethical issues involved."