[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23677]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                             HUMAN CLONING

  (Mrs. Jo Ann Davis of Virginia asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my 
colleagues in calling upon the other body to take up and pass the 
Weldon-Stupak Human Cloning Prohibition Act which was approved by this 
House with 265 votes. This is a necessary and important bill to protect 
in law the uniqueness of human life and to acknowledge that everything 
that science and scientists are capable of accomplishing cannot 
necessarily be labeled as ``progress.'' Human life should be nurtured 
in families by a father and mother, not created in a laboratory to 
ensure certain predetermined genetic traits.
  From experiments with animals, we know that 95 to 99 percent of 
cloned embryos die. Those that survive are often stillborn or die 
shortly after birth. Those that survive beyond birth face unpredictable 
and terrible health problems. The prospect of similar results in the 
cloning of human beings is chilling, and the other body needs to move 
quickly and decisively to prevent scientists from proceeding with such 
unethical and shameless experimentations.
  Now is the time to act. We urge the other body to take a stand on 
this issue.

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