Sam Brownback: “I would like to put forward a couple of issues in response to the Senator from Pennsylvania. No. 1, this issue on the…”

“I would like to put forward a couple of issues in response to the Senator from Pennsylvania. No. 1, this issue on the patenting of humans has been out there about a month now since a group discovered several applications of patents for the patenting of a process to create a human embryo. It has been out there, and a number of us stated we wanted to ban this procedure of patenting. No. 2, as we were going forward in this negotiation process to get the competing cloning bills forward, we were required to exchange a bill, and in our base bill was the issue of banning the patenting of people. That was exchanged this week. It has been out in the hands of Senator Specter's staff or others during this week. We have had this issue of patenting banned. Whether the Senator knew about it or not, it was in the base bill we put forward. On the issue of questioning his integrity, I did not, and I do not here. I stated earlier in my comments that those who are putting this forward do so, when they put forward the issue of cloning people, under laudable purposes: to cure debilitating diseases, the same diseases that I seek to cure. What I call disingenuous is the term 'therapeutic cloning.' It is certainly not therapeutic to the clone, and as I have been going through the science, it is not going to work for the people who are trying to do it.”