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J.C. Watts: “Mr. Speaker, we ought to ban all forms of human cloning, and that is why I support the Weldon-Stupak bill and oppose the…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2001
Mr. Speaker, we ought to ban all forms of human cloning, and that is why I support the Weldon-Stupak bill and oppose the Deutsch-Greenwood substitute amendment. This House should not be giving the green light to mad scientists to tinker with the gift of life. Life is precious, life is sacred, life is not ours to arbitrarily decide who is to live and who is to die. The 'brave new world' should not be born in America. Cloning is an insult to humanity. It is science gone crazy, like a bad B-movie from the 1960s. And as bad as human cloning is, it would lead to even worse atrocities, such as eugenics. Congress needs to pass a complete ban on human cloning, including what some people call therapeutic cloning. Creating life with the intent to fiddle with it, then destroy it, is not good. We are going down a dangerous road of human manipulation.
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J.C. Watts
Oklahoma
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Addressing the issue of human cloning and advocating for a ban during a House floor debate.

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