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Chris Smith: Mr. Greenwood sanctions, licenses, and protects the launching of the most ghoulish and dangerous enterprise in modern…

On the recordFebruary 27, 2003
Mr. Greenwood sanctions, licenses, and protects the launching of the most ghoulish and dangerous enterprise in modern scientific history, the creation of a nascent cloned human life for the sole purpose of its exploitation and destruction. The Greenwood substitute, Mr. Chairman, would, for the first time in human history, sanction the creation of human life with the demand, backed by new Federal criminal and civil sanctions, that the new life be destroyed after being exploited. For the small inconvenience of registering your name and your business address, and filling out a form, you would be licensed to play God by creating life in your own image or someone else's. You would have the right to create embryo farms or anything else science might someday allow to be created outside the womb. And in the end, only failure to kill that which you had created would be against the law. We call it, Mr. Chairman, clone and kill.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Opposing the Greenwood amendment related to human cloning during a House debate.

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