Quick Links Home Abortion  Stem Cell Research & Cloning Partial Birth Abortion  Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia		Press Release   Cloning Pregnancy Requires Senate Action   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 9, 2002   Contact Don Nelson, Nevada LIFE, 775-530-0029 The following statement can be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson: Claims that an Italian physician has a secluded patient/subject who is eight weeks pregnant with a human clone requires the United States Senate to immediately pass the Brownback-Landrieu cloning ban (Senate Bill 1899). This bill was passed last summer in the House of Representatives by over 100 votes (H.R. 2505). The president has said that he will sign it. Additional claims that Chinese scientists have cloned human embryos using human DNA and rabbit eggs along with advances in both the United States and Japan using artificial wombs, as well as other research, are further reason the Senate must take action. The prospects of human embryo farms and designer baby factories are no longer bad science fiction. The future is now. Unless cloning is banned, that future may become a post-human future. These events may be the reason the President will address cloning tomorrow in the Rose Garden. Alternative bills to deal with human cloning, S. 1893 supported by Senator Harry Reid and S. 1758 will not ban human cloning at all. They only ban the birth of clones. They allow the creation of human embryos by cloning for research but require that they be destroyed. It appears that if this research has any mass potential, it will require millions of cloned human embryos. This legislation therefore will not hinder the birth of clones, but make it much easier to do. S. 1899 is necessary to ensure that bad science fiction does not become reality in America. -30-