Dianne Feinstein: “I support a ban on the cloning of human beings. There is widespread agreement that the cloning of a human being should…”

“I support a ban on the cloning of human beings. There is widespread agreement that the cloning of a human being should be prohibited. That agreement, I believe, exists in the Congress. It clearly exists in the scientific community. It exists in the medical community, in the religious community, and it exists in virtually every patient and health group that I know of. I submit, Mr. President, that the cloning of human beings is scientifically unsafe; it is dangerous; it is morally unacceptable; and it is ethically flawed. We should enact a ban. We should pass a law that establishes the illegality of human cloning and sets forth appropriate penalties. The argument I make today is not the ban, but how the bill before the Senate tomorrow, the Bond-Frist bill, would affect scientific research. I introduced identical bills with Senator Kennedy, Senate bills 1602 and 1611 which would protect research that someday, we believe, is likely to provide cures for many of the most dreaded diseases.”