Melvin Watt: “I think if there were a bill on the floor that prohibited human cloning, it would pass 435 to 0. To me, it is somewhat…”

“I think if there were a bill on the floor that prohibited human cloning, it would pass 435 to 0. To me, it is somewhat distressing that this bill has been postured in much the same political context as the abortion debate around the question of when life begins and in a way that would make it impossible to do any kind of cloning, even for research or therapeutic research purposes. And I think the thing that is so distressing about that is that every single one of us knows someone who needs the benefit of science to come up with a therapy, a treatment that could prevent or stop the progress of a distressing disease; and most of the promise is in the area that this bill would prohibit. So I just want to appeal to those people who would like to make this a political issue, a debate about when life begins, that I think different religions have different beliefs about that, and different individuals have different beliefs about that.”