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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

"Clone-and-kill" bill to be introduced?

According to this letter, sent yesterday by the National Right to Life to members of the House of Representatives, Rep. DeGette is planning to try to sneak through a bill that will "legitimize the use of cloning to create human embryo farms.  Under such legislation, it will be perfectly acceptable to create, by cloning, any number of human embryos for use in research that will kill them, but it would be unlawful to attempt to allow such a human clone to live by implanting him or her in a womb."  The letter also notes:

By way of contrast, the Weldon-Stupak bill, which has twice been approved by the House and which will be reintroduced today, would prohibit the use of cloning (also known as somatic cell nuclear transfer, the process used to create Dolly the Sheep and thousands of other mammalian clones) to create human embryos.  This approach -- a true ban on all human cloning-- was urged by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005, and has already been enacted by at least 23 other nations, including France, Germany, and Canada.

If you live in Northern Indiana, here's the link to Congressman Donnelly's office.  (Rep. Donnelly is a pro-life Democrat.)

https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/06/cloneandkill_bi.html

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