[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13848]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          SCNT EQUALS 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, Members of this body this past week have been 
told by outside groups that somatic cell nuclear transfer is not 
cloning. That is just not true. SCNT is the same process that created 
Dolly the sheep. If SCNT does not create a clone, then Dolly was not a 
sheep.
  SCNT produces an embryo, whether the procedure is done to destroy the 
human embryo for research or to implant it to produce a child. The fact 
that creating it does not involve sperm is what makes it a clone. This 
is unquestioned by serious people. Bioethics commissions, President 
Clinton, and George W. Bush said that the product of SCNT is a cloned 
embryo.
  In a debate as emotional and important as this one, it is important 
to understand all the facts; and it is equally important to see through 
the word games espoused by some groups and Members of this body.
  SCNT creates a cloned human embryo. There is no way around it. And 
that is why this body should move quickly to stop human cloning before 
scientists start killing human clones like they killed all those sheep 
when they cloned Dolly.

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