On the recordFebruary 27, 2003
I believe that all embryonic cloning, whether therapeutic or reproductive, violates moral and rational bounds. First, embryonic cloning is unproven. Not a single case of embryonic cloning in animals has resulted in successful treatment of any disease. Furthermore, animals created through embryonic cloning have developed unnaturally and suffered numerous genetic defects. Second, embryonic cloning is immoral. Every cloned embryo is capable of developing into an adult. The Greenwood amendment proposes the artificial creation of life and subsequent destruction thereof. This cannot be tolerated. Finally, even in the most conservative of estimates, hundreds of millions of human eggs would be needed for human cloning. Women, especially the under-privileged, would be exploited for the sale of their eggs. We cannot allow human eggs to become a commodity. We must ban all embryonic cloning. I urge my colleagues to support the resolution.
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