[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21826]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                             HUMAN CLONING

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, time is running out for us to 
stop mad scientists from cloning innocent human beings.
  Infamous fertility specialist Severino Antinori is working with a 
team of scientists right now to clone humans. He recently told the BBC 
radio, and I quote, I think in 3 or 4 months we will have the first 
pregnancy. Asked whether he would have a cloned human being by 
September 2002, he said, I hope and I believe.
  Columnist Charles Krauthammer is one of the many calling on the 
Senate to pass a human cloning ban. He recently said, and I quote, 
``Sanity and prudence combined to produce a great victory on July 31 
when the House of Representatives overwhelmingly defeated--the margin 
was over 100 votes--the legalization of early human embryonic cloning. 
But the fight is not over. The Senate needs to act as well.''
  Our government, Mr. Speaker, cannot sit idly by as unethical 
scientists play God and redefine what it means to be a human. We cannot 
allow this violation of human rights, this crime against humanity, to 
take place on our watch.
  We need a cloning ban and we need it now.

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