[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22596]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               URGING SENATE ACTION ON HUMAN CLONING BAN

  (Mr. FERGUSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Speaker, time is running out. With each passing 
day, scientists come closer and closer to cloning a human being. Step-
by-step, they are completing a process whereby human life, the most 
sacred of gifts, is cheapened and devalued through mass production.
  Mr. Speaker, I applaud my colleagues in the House for their hard work 
earlier this year in passing the Human Cloning Prohibition Act. But now 
is not the time to rest. Now is the time to continue our work and urge 
our Senate colleagues to listen to the voice of the American people and 
to vote to ban human cloning.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud of the Senate's compromise to bring this bill 
to the floor in a few months. Unfortunately, the time line for cloning 
science is set to outpace our own schedule.
  Therefore, I urge my Senate colleagues to act now to bring this bill 
to a vote and to outpace this unethical misuse of science that would 
demean nature's work and degrade human life.

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