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Guest Commentary November 26, 2001
We Must Ban All Human Cloning
The Honorable Sam Brownback
Advanced Cell Technologies announced yesterday that it had successfully produced the first human clones.
Now that the threshold has been crossed, it is only a matter of time before cloned human embryos are implanted for live birth.
We must ban all human cloning; whether it is for reproductive purposes, or for destructive experimental purposes.
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The House has already passed a comprehensive and complete ban on all human cloning. The Senate must follow the actions taken by the House earlier this year, and pass a complete ban on human cloning.
While I realize the debate on cloning is scheduled to occur in the Senate next spring – the events of the past day make it clear that we must act sooner.
I call on Senate Leadership to immediately take up and pass the House-passed bill, which is currently being held at the desk, on human cloning.
This is an important issue – an issue that commands our attention in part because of the vast historical consequence, and also because it is an issue that focuses are attention on the meaning of life – and whether or not we will, as a society, allow life to be created and destroyed at our whim.
Sam Brownback, a Republican, is a U.S. Senator from Kansas. The above commentary has been adapted from remarks Sen. Brownback made at a Capitol Hill news conference, November 26, 2001. To contact him, Click Here.
The above column has been distributed by PoliticsOL.com.
