[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4139]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         BAN HUMAN CLONING NOW

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it is written that ``I set before you 
blessings and curses, life and death. Now choose life that you and your 
children might live.''
  Today, 40 Nobel laureates will come to Capitol Hill to express their 
support for human cloning for research. Apparently Professor John Nash, 
the Nobel laureate portrayed in the movie ``A Beautiful Mind,'' is not 
the only Nobel winner who is crazy.
  Human cloning is morally wrong. It is without a doubt in the 
overwhelming view of the American people and of our President and of 
medical ethics for thousands of years that research on human beings for 
medical advance is wrong. It is a dark path leading to the nightmare of 
eugenics, and it is a path upon which those in the 20th century 
embarked too often.
  Congress should reject the intellectuals again. We should heed the 
majority of the American people, listen to our President, choose life 
and ban human cloning now.

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