[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. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, we learned last week that just because a 
person has an advanced degree, there is still no guarantee that they 
are ethical or that they even exercise common sense. Some scientists 
are claiming today that they need to clone human beings in order to 
develop cures for diseases. We have been cloning animals for years; and 
not one, not one animal study has resulted in even a single useful 
therapy.
  The history of animal cloning is replete with defects, deformities, 
and death. Dolly the sheep was the 277th try. To clone a human being, 
scientists will have to sacrifice hundreds and thousands of tiny human 
beings who will die because they are mutated and full of genetic 
defects and used for experimentation and harvesting of organs and 
cells.
  Mr. Speaker, human life is human life. This kind of mad science 
should not be permitted. The House has passed the cloning ban. It needs 
to be passed into law so the American people can rest assured our 
government still knows right from wrong. It is obvious some scientists 
do not.

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