[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21828]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      CONGRESS SHOULD BAN CLONING

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, after decades of Christian education and 
religious study, there are two things that I know for sure: number one, 
there is a God; and number two, I am not Him. The entire debate over 
human cloning flies in the face of these two great truths.
  Many Americans learned, after this institution banned human cloning 
earlier this year, that we are truly close to this moral horror, a 
horror that uses bad science, science that went through 277 deeply 
mutilated animals before Dolly the sheep was conceived and birthed 
successfully.
  It is unthinkable that we would not act on this House's call to ban 
human cloning; that we would not respond to the President's thoughtful 
message to the world in August that we must think deeply, we must 
legislate thoughtfully along the fault lines of religion, morality, and 
technology.
  I urge our colleagues in the other body to move and to move now on 
banning human cloning in the United States of America.

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