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Press Release
No Partial Cloning Bans
Senate Must Ban All Human Cloning
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 1, 2002
Contact
Don Nelson, Nevada LIFE, 775-530-0029
The following statement can
be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson:
In classic Orwellian fashion, two
United States Senate bills have changed the meaning of
human cloning to allow supporters of human cloning
research to say they are against human cloning while
supporting and encouraging it. S. 1893, sponsored by
Nevada Senator Harry Reid, and S. 1758 define cloning as
the act of transferring the newly cloned embryo to a
womb instead of the process that creates a new human
embryo, which is the medically correct definition.
Orwell would be horrified.
These bills would allow the
intentional creation of human embryos for the sole
purpose of destroying them for their stem cells for so
called therapeutic research. These bills would not ban
cloning at all. They would only ban the birth of cloned
human beings.
The Senate needs to pass S. 1899,
sponsored by Nevada Senator John Ensign. This is the
Senate version of HR 2505 which easily passed the House
last summer. This bill will ban all human cloning. It
needs immediate action because 86 percent of Americans
polled answered no when asked "should scientists be
allowed to create a supply of human embryos to be
destroyed in medical research?"
Besides the ethical concerns of
cloning for research, a ban on cloning will not hinder
research. A full ban on human cloning will not interfere
with medical research because cloning embryos for stem
cell experimentation is increasingly recognized as a
wasteful, unreliable and unnecessary path to medical
research. The most beneficial stem cell research today
uses stem cells from adult tissue, umbilical cords and
other sources that involve no harm to human life. New
cures for disease can be pursued without creating human
lives in the laboratory solely to destroy them.
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