[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 30 (Thursday, March 16, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1081]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE PRACTICE OF USING HUMAN FETAL TISSUE FOR RESEARCH MUST BE STOPPED

  (Mr. RYUN of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYUN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, we should stop the practice of using 
human fetal tissue for research and for commerce, and we should 
certainly stop subsidizing its industry.
  Although researchers profess to have the best intentions, this 
utilitarian view of human life cheapens the lives and dignity of all 
human beings. There has been substantial evidence to prove that some 
profit-oriented physicians have induced women to get abortions with the 
goal of trafficking those body parts of the deceased.
  Private companies, institutions, and even public universities are 
buying and selling baby organs. This business of trafficking human 
flesh includes order forms for specific organs, detailed dissection 
orders, graphic brochures, and price lists for whole-body parts.
  I feel that it is time to stop this appalling practice of human 
embryo and fetal tissue experimentation, and continue our legal role as 
protectors and healers of the born and pre-born. To make the 
destruction of our children's bodies into a money-making business is 
horrific and unconscionable and it must stop.

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