[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 83 (Tuesday, June 21, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H4808]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               NOW IS THE TIME TO ENACT HUMAN CLONING BAN

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, human cloning is coming. Despite ominous 
developments in South Korea and in laboratories across the land, last 
week, the House Committee on Appropriations rejected, by a narrow 
margin, a thoughtful amendment authored by the gentleman from Florida 
(Mr. Weldon). The Weldon cloning amendment would essentially prohibit 
any entity, institution, private or public, from receiving NIH funds if 
that entity engages in human cloning for research or reproductive 
purposes.
  While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance, and 
the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is 
around the corner.
  Now is the time for Congress to act. On two separate occasions, 
Congress has enacted the Weldon-Stupak cloning ban by a 60 percent-plus 
bipartisan majority. And the time is now, after last week's 
disappointing vote in the Committee on Appropriations, with the Labor-
HHS bill headed to the floor, now is the time, this summer, to once 
again bring a human cloning ban to the floor and enacted into law.

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