[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23150]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        HUMAN CLONING UNETHICAL

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, it was announced that 
the Massachusetts biotechnology company, Advanced Cell Technology, had 
created the first human clones. They claim they only want to use these 
embryos for research purposes. However, this research is unethical for 
at least two reasons:
  First, it involves the special creation of human life for 
experimentation and then destruction. There are morally acceptable 
alternatives to this type of research.
  Secondly, for this research to advance, scientists will need massive 
quantities of women's eggs to generate the necessary number of clones 
for the research to proceed. Women will be donating their eggs not for 
the purpose of having children but for the purpose of making money.
  As pro-choice feminist Judy Norsigian said in a Boston Globe column, 
``Because embryo cloning will compromise women's health, turn their 
eggs and their wombs into commodities, compromising their reproductive 
autonomy and virtually certainly lead to the production of experimental 
human beings, we are convinced the line must be drawn here.''
  Judy is right. The Senate needs to act.

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