The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.
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