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Urgent Congressional Alert: Pro-Cloning Forces Pushing U.S. Senate to Approve Clone-and-Kill Bill!(Brief Article)
WASHINGTON (July 8, 2002) - - Senators who support human cloning claim to be within two votes of being able to pass a bill that would give the green light to the establishment of human embryo farms in the United States.
NRLC is strongly opposed to this "clone and kill" legislation, which is being pushed by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Tom Daschle (D-SD), and others.
Senators who support this bill, and much of the news media, are misleadingly describing it as a ban on "cloning human beings." In fact, this bill would permit the mass cloning of human embryos for medical research - - and then require federal law enforcement agencies to ensure that every human embryo is killed before reaching the age of 15 days.
For more details on what the clone and kill bill would do, see "Senate Democratic Leader Blocks Cloning Ban, Pushes for Approval of Clone-and-Kill Bill," on page 8.
Under Senate rules, if 60 senators vote to "invoke cloture" on a bill, it usually will pass quickly and without major amendments. Majority Leader Daschle has said he would bring the bill up as soon as supporters believe they have the 60 votes necessary to prevent Brownback or other anti-cloning senators from blocking it by filibuster.
On June 14, Senator Feinstein said, "We are very close today to that 60 vote necessity to move ahead with it." In late June, it was reported that the pro-cloning forces were privately claiming to have 58 senators pledged to support their bill.
In order to prevent the Senate from approving the clone-and-kill legislation, please communicate with your two U.S. senators. Here are the main points:
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