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



                             HUMAN CLONING

  (Mr. SMITH of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, let me tell my colleagues about 
the company that informed us that they have the technology to clone 
human beings. This is the same company that conducted research in which 
they introduced human cells into cow eggs, they have created human 
embryos specifically for scientific experimentation. In other words--
use newly created human beings--steal their stem cells, then kill them. 
And now they have cloned human beings that lived for a few hours as 
embryos and then died. The drill here is to clone then kill the newly 
created human.
  Their president, Michael West, has made clear that he has no problems 
with cloned births once so-called ``safety issues'' are resolved. Glen 
McGee, the former chair of their ethics advisory board, current 
professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and editor in 
chief of the American Journal of Bioethics, resigned from this 
company's ethics advisory board last fall because they were using it as 
a front.
  But that should come as no surprise, Mr. Speaker, when you consider 
what is going on in their labs. These are not the people we want to 
defend. These are not the people we want to hold up as scientific 
trailblazers, nor do we want to empower or enable them.
  Their actions are more like, Mr. Speaker, the Third Reich, where 
scientists routinely played God, than the work of visionaries like 
Copernicus, Galileo, Madame Curie or Jonas Salk.
  The Senate must pass the House-passed bill to proscribe cloning.

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