Stop Human Cloning
February 24, 2002
Washington, DC, -- Stop Human Cloning,
a grassroots issue advocacy organization, will begin airing television
advertisements this week to urge viewers to contact their undecided Senators to
ask them to vote in favor of legislation banning all human cloning. The
30-second spot, produced by the MPGH Agency, will run for nine days beginning
Tuesday, February 26 in Georgia and North Dakota, with other states to follow.
The ads highlight the moral and practical objections to human cloning.
President Bush has called repeatedly on the Senate to pass anti-cloning
legislation sponsored by Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Senator Mary
Landrieu (D-Louisiana). Similar legislation was approved in the House of
Representatives by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 265-162 last July.
Majority Leader Tom Daschle committed last year to schedule a Senate vote on a
cloning ban early in 2002.
"The Senate is scheduled to vote soon on a human cloning ban," said William
Kristol, chairman of Stop Human Cloning. "This issue is too important to allow
the debate to be dominated by the powerful biotech lobby and other special
interests. With these ads, we're taking the debate to the American people, and
we're confident that they will urge their Senators to close this door leading to
the horrors of the Brave New World." Kristol has served for this past year as
chairman of The Bioethics Project, an educational think-tank. He will now turn
the bulk of his efforts in this area to this more activist, issue-advocacy
organization.
Mary Cannon, executive director of Stop Human Cloning, a 501(c)(4), said the
organization would use advertising, as well as grassroots lobbying, to educate
citizens about the dangers of human cloning. Stop Human Cloning will focus its
efforts in states represented by undecided Senators.
[The text of the television advertisement follows. The ad can be viewed via the
web at www.cloninginformation.org]
For further information contact:
Stop Human Cloning
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC 20004
202-661-4786
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