[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23151]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           BAN HUMAN 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, 88 percent of the American people think that 
human cloning is immoral. Accordingly, this representative body 
overwhelmingly outlawed human cloning this July. Many of us are 
outraged to learn that a bio-technical firm has gone forward and made 
significant gains in the area of cellular-level human cloning.
  Mr. Speaker, I must say today that amoral bio-technical firms ought 
not to lead America as America leads the world in medical ethics. 
Rather, America ought to be informed by history, by conscience, by 
history and by our laws and by this institution.
  Our Chaplain spoke today about the Tower of Babel that was built on 
pride, of technology rising to the skies that destroyed their people. I 
submit that the creation of nascent human life, for research or vanity, 
is such a tower that threats to tear at the fabric of our society and 
our laws and our very civilization. It must be banned.

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