PUBLIC STATEMENTS

Biotech Company Clones Human Embryo
Urge your Senators to pass the Human Cloning Prohibition Act

EMBRYO PARTS FOR SALE
Cloning is a way of producing a genetic twin of an organism, without sexual reproduction. Cloning human beings poses both ethical and scientific problems.  A Presidential Directive prevents the use of federal funds for cloning human beings, but a complete ban is needed because the private sector is continuing this immoral research.

If ACT is permitted to continue with life-killing research, embryo farms will become commonplace.  Biotech companies across the country will engage in the prolific creation and destruction of embryos to harvest, sell, and dissect baby body parts.

REJECT CLONE-AND-KILL 'RESEARCH'
On July 31, the House of Representatives passed the Weldon-Stupak Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 (H.R. 2505) with bipartisan support (265 to 162.)  Senate action is needed immediately.  H.R. 2505 would ban human cloning for both reproductive and so-called research or "therapeutic" purposes.  The line between research and reproduction is quite porous.  Michael West, chief executive officer of ACT, even admitted that cloning for research purposes would inevitably lead to reproductive cloning.  The only way to effectively ban reproductive cloning is to also ban cloning for experimental research purposes.

The halls of Congress are swarming with high-paid lobbyists for biotech companies who are defending their "right" to clone and kill human embryos in the name of research, and the politicians are listening.  Permitting cloning for so-called research is a clone-and-kill approach that would lead to the federally-mandated killing of any research-created human clone.  Creating life to destroy it shows a callous disregard for human life.

ACTION ITEMS
Prior to the announcement by ACT, the Senate had planned to delay action on the cloning bill until the spring.  Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) attempted to bring up H.R. 2505 on the Senate floor today, but Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) objected. Senate passage is needed immediately to stop this unethical and immoral embryo cloning experimentation.    

The President will sign the bill.