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Press Release
Senate To Consider
Temporary Cloning Ban
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2001
Contact
Don Nelson, Nevada LIFE, 775-530-0029
The following statement can
be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson:
On Monday December 3 The United States
Senate will vote on the Lott-Brownback amendment that
includes a six-month cloning ban.
Nevada LIFE condemns the cloning of
human beings. Human beings and human life are not raw
materials to be mined, or commodities to be bought or
sold. Human strip mines, human embryo farms and designer
baby factories are now thinkable, but unconscionable.
Cloning advocates accuse opponents of
cloning of hindering research. It is clear that not all
research is ethical. The atrocities committed at the
hands of scientists and in the name of scientific
progress during the last century make it clear that
“science” and “research” can never proceed without
guidance from morality and ethics. On the contrary,
ethics and morality are above science and are necessary
to ensure that progress is not at the expense of human
beings. Nevada LIFE and right to life organizations
support research which does not kill human embryos such
as adult stem cell research and therapies using
umbilical cord blood and placental tissue.
Nevada LIFE urges Senator’s Reid and
Ensign to support the Lott-Brownback six-month ban and
likewise support the full ban already passed by the
House (H.R. 2505). We urge them to vote with Senator
Brownback on all procedural motions that involve the
human cloning issue, including any cloture votes.
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