Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, it has been a good debate so far. It was a good debate last year. This is about ethical and moral issues. The proponents of the gentleman from Florida's (Mr. Weldon) bill have argued the ethical and moral issues against reproductive cloning; and on that issue, my friend, the gentleman from Florida (Dr. Weldon) and I are in perfect agreement. It is wrong to create a human being through cloning. It is probably physically cruel to do that, because of the likelihood of defect; and it is emotionally, I believe, cruel to do that because no one should be brought into life as a duplicate of another. Each of us has the right to be the product of a mother and a father. So we agree on that. Now let us deal with the moral and ethical issues that have to do with somatic nuclear transfer. Because what is at stake is well over a hundred million Americans today suffering from diseases like Parkinson's, like Alzheimer's, like cancer, and like diabetes; and as this chart shows, the millions of people suffering today from those diseases and the millions more expected to be suffering from those diseases over the next 10 years.”