Sam Brownback: “Why would we contemplate going to the point of creating a human life and patenting this human life in an area where we…”

“Why would we contemplate going to the point of creating a human life and patenting this human life in an area where we are showing no results taking place, and it has all these ethical questions, and you have one generation of humanity saying, okay, we think there are some possibilities here to research in this cloning area? Therefore, we are going to allow the creation of human clones, which we allow freely in the United States to take place today; it is going on right now. We are going to allow them to be patented so that you can own this creation of a human being. We don't have to go there. I would say, at a minimum, we ought to contemplate at least pausing on this until we see how all of this would grow and develop before we contemplate creating humans just to research them. We have a better alternative that is working today.”