Brian Kerns: “I come to the floor of this House today to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 2505, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of…”

“I come to the floor of this House today to urge my colleagues to support H.R. 2505, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001. Today we take an important step in the process to ban human cloning in the United States. I commend the leadership of the chairman, the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), as well as the coauthors, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Stupak), and the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kucinich), because this is a bipartisan bill. I also appreciate the support and the efforts of the Committee on the Judiciary in recognizing the important nature of this issue and making it a priority and moving it to the floor for consideration. Human cloning is not a Republican or a Democrat issue, it is an issue for all of mankind. The prospect of cloning a human being raises serious moral, ethical, and human health implications. Other countries around the globe look to us for leadership, not only on this but on other important pressing issues, and I think we have a responsibility to take a stand and take a leadership position. That stand should reflect the respect for human dignity envisioned by our Founding Fathers.”