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Action Alert. Urgent Congressional Alert: Pro-Cloning Forces Pushing U.S. Senate to Approve Clone--and--Kill Bill!
WASHINGTON (Feb. 3, 2003)--President Bush called on Congress to ban all human cloning during his January 28 State of the Union address.
The legislation supported by President Bush and by National Right to Life is the Brownback-Landrieu bill in the Senate (S. 245) and the Weldon-Stupak bill in the House (H.R. 534).
These bills would prohibit the cloning of human embryos--thereby preventing what President Bush has previously called human "embryo farms" from beginning operations in the United States.
This legislation is strongly opposed by elements of the biotechnology industry, some patients' advocacy groups, and some scientists. Many of these opponents have endorsed competing legislation (S. 303) sponsored in the Senate by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), and others, that is misleadingly labeled as a "ban on cloning" but that actually would allow the cloning of human embryos to be killed in research. NRLC is strongly opposed to this "clone and kill" legislation.
The House of Representatives passed the true cloning ban in 2001, and is expected to do so again. But so far, neither the true cloning ban (Brownback-Landrieu) nor the phony ban has garnered the level of support needed to pass the Senate.
To help pass the Brownback-Landrieu bill and defeat the phony ban, it is essential that all senators (pro-life or pro-abortion) hear from large numbers of citizens who are opposed to human cloning and human embryo farms.
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News March 1, 2003 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Review June 28, 2004 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Review April 19, 2004 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 9, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Review May 14, 2007 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News August 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Congress May Vote Soon on Creation and Killing of Human Embryos.
- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News July 1, 2001 700+ words
...research in which human embryos are killed...obtained by killing human embryos, who are usually...recent weeks, President Bush is personally...says that if President Bush does attempt...actual killing of human embryos. Thus, it...
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- Magazine article from: National Right to Life News March 1, 2002 700+ words
...ban the cloning of human embryos. Daschle had earlier...of cloning to create human embryos. The bill is sponsored...overtakes the debate." President Bush has repeatedly called...attempts to produce cloned human embryos, saying, "We should...