[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 96 (Tuesday, July 16, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H4681]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   KASS COMMISSION REPORTS ON 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, there are some scientists in this country who 
have very poor ethics. They want to clone human beings. They say they 
only want to do it for research purposes and that they will make sure 
the embryos they create never get to grow up. Do not worry, they say, 
we will kill them before they can survive on their own.
  Mr. Speaker, there is no ethical way to clone a human being. If you 
let it live, it is wrong. If you kill it, that is wrong too.
  The President's commission on bioethics chaired by Dr. Leon Kass has 
just issued a report on cloning. The commission says that there should 
be a ban on all cloning, at least for the next 4 years. Of course, I 
think that ban should be permanent.
  Nevertheless, the Kass commission joins the House of Representatives 
and the President and the American people in calling for a ban on 
cloning. There is only one-half of one branch of this government 
missing from this equation. It is time for the other body to 
demonstrate that it is not out of touch and to pass a ban on all human 
cloning.

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