Mike Pence: “human cloning is coming. Despite ominous developments in South Korea and in laboratories across the land, last week, the…”

“human cloning is coming. Despite ominous developments in South Korea and in laboratories across the land, last week, the House Committee on Appropriations rejected, by a narrow margin, a thoughtful amendment authored by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon). The Weldon cloning amendment would essentially prohibit any entity, institution, private or public, from receiving NIH funds if that entity engages in human cloning for research or reproductive purposes. While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance, and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. Now is the time for Congress to act. On two separate occasions, Congress has enacted the Weldon-Stupak cloning ban by a 60 percent-plus bipartisan majority. And the time is now, after last week's disappointing vote in the Committee on Appropriations, with the Labor- HHS bill headed to the floor, now is the time, this summer, to once again bring a human cloning ban to the floor and enacted into law. ____________________”