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Press Release
Research Cloning Becomes
Legal In New Jersey.
Opens Door For Human Fetal
Farming.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 6, 2004
The Following
Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE President Don
Nelson:
Unless some sort of action is
taken, January 4, 2004 will be one of the saddest,
darkest and most ethically perverse days in the history
of the United States.
A bill passed in December by
the lame duck New Jersey Legislature (AB
2840 and S 1909) was signed into law by New
Jersey Governor James McGreevey.
AB 2840 will allow the
creation of new human beings by cloning for research
purposes, not just in the first days of human life and
development, but at least until the moment of birth.
Reporting this may be
another instance in which right to life leaders risk
their credibility.
Outside of science fiction
futurists, who could possibly believe this could be
true?
Proponents say the bill bans
cloning.
These words lack credibility
and mislead the public by distorting, through law, the
definition of cloning.
Cloning, known as Somatic
Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), entails removing genetic
material from a person’s body cell and injecting it into
a hollowed out unfertilized egg, which is then
stimulated to begin embryonic development.
The New Jersey bill says
that SCNT is legal, but cloning is not.
The legislature can say that
cloning is illegal because of the way it has defined
both cloning and a human clone in the bill.
As currently written, the
bill defines human cloning as having occurred not at the
point of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT), but at
sometime after the birthing process.
It says:
“As used in this section, ‘cloning
of a human being’ means the replication of a human
individual by cultivating a cell with genetic material
through the egg, embryo, fetal and newborn stages into a
new human individual.”
Throughout this period researchers
would be able to use “cadaveric” (the bill’s term)
tissue for research and transplantation purposes without
penalty.
This is human farming.
In addition to the injustice to
young human clones, these kinds of practices cannot
occur without impacting the culture.
It will create further
contempt for human life.
Society will only be able to
squelch its cognitive dissonance with these evil
practices by demeaning the humanity and worth of these
new human beings.
Humans created by cloning
will be spoken of in impersonal terms and their humanity
debased to justify their abuse.
When this kind of human
devaluation occurs, it threatens the rights and
valuation of every human being.
Nevada state legislators need to act soon to make sure
that this practice does not come to Nevada.
This bill also demonstrates
the need for the United States Senate to finally pass
the Brownback-Landrieux Human Cloning Prohibition Act,
passed by the Congress earlier this year, which would
ban all human cloning in the United States, and which is
supported by Senator Ensign and opposed by Senator Reid.
See the Nevada LIFE website
for more cloning information.
www.nevadalife.org.
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