[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17466]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       LAW NEEDED TO BAN 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, recently scientists in a lab in Chicago took 
a female human embryo and injected into it cells from a male human 
embryo, creating what they called a mixed-sex embryo.
  In the name of progress, some scientists are pushing the limits of 
medical ethics with their experimentation and toying with human life, 
and this is what happened in Chicago last week. But the fact that it 
happened opens the door to even further laboratory experiments in 
manufacturing human life.
  The effect of unethical research is that it turns human life into a 
commodity to be bought and sold to the highest bidder or to the most 
advanced laboratory. The more scientists do this type of 
experimentation, the more likely we will face a situation described in 
science fiction books where humans are mass produced in laboratories. 
We should not go down that road.
  What can Congress do about it? We can start by sending the President 
a cloning ban to sign into law. The other thing we can do is to fund 
good ethical research.

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