Mike Pence: “I rise in strong and grateful support for the Human Cloning Prohibition Act and for the extraordinary efforts of my…”

“I rise in strong and grateful support for the Human Cloning Prohibition Act and for the extraordinary efforts of my colleague, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon), in conceiving of and promoting this bill over the last several years. I also urge opposition to the substitute, despite the fact that I know it is well intended, and my colleagues on the Committee on the Judiciary, with whom I serve, I know bring great passion and compassion to these issues. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, not to demagogue an issue and not to vilify those who would differ with me but to offer a gentle but firm endorsement of a clean ban of human cloning in all of its permutations. Like virtually everyone in this institution and everyone, as the previous speaker just said, opposed the idea of reproductive human cloning. We see it as deeply, morally offensive and objectionable, and so it is. But I would also offer, in a spirit of humility, Mr. Speaker, that even that which is called therapeutic cloning or the cloning only of nascent human life for the purpose of experimentation is also deeply, morally problematic...”