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Urge Senators to Ban Human Cloning! The House has again passed the ban! Urge the Senate to pass Brownback-Landrieu and defeat Hatch-Feinstein!
WASHINGTON (March 7, 2003) - - The critical issue of banning the cloning of humans is back in the lap of the U.S. Senate.
President Bush called on Congress to ban all human cloning during his January 28 State of the Union address. On February 27, the House of Representatives passed the bill supported by President Bush and by National Right to Life, the Weldon-Stupak bill (H.R. 534), which would ban the cloning of human embryos.
The House had passed this same bill in July 2001 - - but it later died without action in the Senate. Now the need is even more urgent and the Senate must act!
In the Senate, very similar anti-human-cloning legislation, S. 245, is sponsored by Senators Sam Brownback (R-Ks.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
The true ban on human cloning 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 who would be killed in research.
President Bush is strongly opposed to this type of legislation to allow human cloning for research, which the White House warned would permit "human embryo farms." (In the House, a similar "clone and kill" proposal, the Greenwood Substitute, was rejected on February 27.)
NRLC has issued a factsheet comparing the true cloning ban legislation with the Hatch-Feinstein "clone and kill" legislation. This factsheet also refutes some of the misinformation on the two bills that is being propagated by groups that support the cloning of human embryos--misinformation that has been adopted by some journalists. The factsheet is posted on the NRLC website here: http://www.nrlc.org/Killing_Embryos/cloningbackrounder 021003.html.
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