[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 23309]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          HUMAN EMBRYO CLONING

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                           HON. RONNIE SHOWS

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 28, 2001

  Mr. SHOWS. Mr. Speaker, the cloning of a human embryo goes far beyond 
the fact that it is bad public policy. We are not a society, I say we 
are not a creation of God, that would make a life in order to kill it. 
This is what is happening and this is what we must stop now. The 
farming of human embryos, human lives, for use as laboratory test rats 
is a frightening and destructive direction this nation, this society, 
would take.
  The single responsible measure we can take is to stop human cloning 
now before a slow numbing acceptance takes place.
  Douglas Johnson at National Right to Life said, ``Each of us began 
our individual life as an embryo. We were human when we were embryos, 
and these cloned embryos are human lives too. Once begun, human lives--
including human lives begun by cloning--should be protected, not killed 
to provide biological raw material.'' He is right.
  We must expand on the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, H.R. 2505, 
passed in July and make human embryo cloning completely illegal.

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