[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 153 (Wednesday, November 7, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H7857]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CONGRESS SHOULD BAN CLONING

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, a month ago, a Dr. Zavos of Cyprus announced 
that he expected to be able to create a cloned human being within 3 or 
4 months. That means 2 or 3 months from now.
  Mr. Speaker, cloning human beings is wrong. Cloning human beings is 
immoral. Any scientist who intends to clone a human being should be 
stopped. The scientific community says so, the American people say so, 
and earlier this year, the House of Representatives said so.
  The few scientists who promote cloning call it progress. Well, I want 
to remind my colleagues that years ago Adolf Hitler employed the 
science of eugenics and also called it progress. The Nazis wanted to 
create a race of German supermen, the way dog breeders try to breed 
championship dogs. That was wrong. It was stopped, and it has not been 
tried again.
  Now we have a few rogue scientists trying to clone human beings. We 
cannot stop Dr. Zavos, only the Government of Cyprus can do that, but 
we can stop the scientists in this country who are trying to do the 
same thing.
  The other body needs to bring this bill up for a vote before it is 
too late.

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