Posted on 06/07/2007 8:29:52 AM PDT by Between the Lines
WASHINGTON, June 6 /Christian Newswire/ -- Wisconsin Right to Life learned late yesterday that a bill to foster the creation of cloned human embryos, for the purpose of using them in research that will kill them, will be on the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives today, Wednesday, June 6. The legislation, HR 2560, is sponsored by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Co.).
"This is a blatant move on the part of the House Democratic leadership to ram the DeGette bill through the U.S. House," said Susan Armacost, Legislative Director of Wisconsin Right to Life. "This bill is being falsely labeled as a "ban" on human cloning but it is nothing of the sort! It is a bill to legitimize the use of cloning in order to create any number of human embryos for use in research that will kill them. Under this bill, it would be unlawful to attempt to allow such a human clone to live by implanting him or her in a womb."
The cloning vote will occur the day before the House is scheduled to take up S. 5, a bill to mandate federal funding of the kind of research that requires the killing of human embryos. The embryos utilized under S. 5 would be created by in vitro fertilization, not cloning. Wisconsin Right to Life strongly opposes S. 5.
To read the letter sent to U. S. House members by the National Right to Life Committee in opposition to the DeGette bill and for information on S. 5, go to www.nrlc.org
Another bill that’s a waste of time for taxpayers since it’s going nowhere beyond the House.
I should totally be cloned.
I don’t know what all the fuss is about. Down in parts of Appalachia they’ve been cloning humans for generations now.
Human cloning scares the living bejebus out of me.
The ethical issues involved are horrifying to contemplate.
From “lifeless” organ farms with no heads or brains that never leave some tank of artificial primoridal goo to some lunatic group willing to clone some of history’s greatest villans? There’s many more in between that are just as fatalistically horrible science fiction.
The line from Jurassic Park uttered by Dr. Malcom really fits here, “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. “
The concept is terrifying.
Don’t need two of me running around.
I likey!
Hell if I could clone myself I could stay at home AND run off with that Russian mail order bride I’m in love with!
“Don’t need two of me running around.”
I’m with you on that one. I have enough on my hands just keeping my own life in order. Don’t need to worry about what kind of crap the other me would be up to.
Legend in our own mind are we?:)
I’d like to clone one of my hottie ex girlfriends....as long as a brain implant was possible too.
Photo?
Heads up if this is true, Duncan Hunter will need to vote on this...
GGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
I WAS eatin’ lunch.
:(
“Legend in our own mind are we?:)”
Less talking, more cloning!!
Hwo do you want to be first to master this technology, the US or the Chinese?
I say it should be us. Because even if we have some kind of international agreement not to pursue this, the tyrants and the godless of the world will do it anyway.
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