Chris Smith: “late last week Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called Congressman Greenwood's legislative approach to…”

“late last week Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called Congressman Greenwood's legislative approach to human cloning ``a nightmare of a bill.'' He went on to write that the Greenwood substitute ``sanctions, licenses and protects the launching of the most ghoulish and dangerous enterprise in modern scientific history: the creation of nascent cloned human life for the sole purpose of its exploitation and destruction.'' Charles Krauthammer, Mr. Speaker, nailed it precisely. The Greenwood substitute would for the first time in 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 it is experimented upon and exploited. For the small inconvenience of registering your name and your business address, 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, headless human clones, or anything else science might one day allow to be created outside the womb; and in the end only failure to kill what you had created would be against the law. A few moments ago, the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutsch) said that cloning doesn't result in the creation of a unique human being. That's ludicrous. That is exactly what the Weldon bill speaks to.”