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Marilyn Musgrave: I would like to rise to speak to the profound moral issues raised when we consider permitting medical science to create…

On the recordFebruary 25, 2003
I would like to rise to speak to the profound moral issues raised when we consider permitting medical science to create human life for the exclusive purpose of experimentation and destruction. I think that we need to look to human history. It is a truth of history that governments and mankind, if given the opportunity under the law, will trample on human life. History is strewn with such examples. By legalizing human cloning for any reason, and many of them can sound altruistic even if they are false, we open a Pandora's box which could set our civilization on a similar course. It is morally wrong to create human life, even nascent human life, for the purpose of experimentation and destruction.
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Marilyn Musgrave
Republican · Colorado

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Addressing the moral implications of human cloning during a debate.

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