[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23152]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           BAN HUMAN CLONING

  (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, this past summer I spoke on the floor of 
this House and voted with my colleagues overwhelmingly to ban human 
cloning. Two weeks ago I stood at this podium and urged our colleagues 
in the Senate to act on and pass this important legislation which would 
ban this mad science. This past weekend, as we all know, it happened. 
American scientists announced that they had cloned a human embryo.
  Mr. Speaker, now is the time. Now is the time to choose between 
reckless science and a respect for human life, the time to choose 
between courageous action and silence.
  Mr. Speaker, the message to our colleagues in the Senate must be to 
act now to ban human cloning. We can afford to wait no longer.

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