Political Quotes

“I rise to support both the intent and to underscore the importance of this bill, the Bond-Frist-Gregg bill, which does address the issue of human cloning. The purpose of this bill is very straightforward, and that is to prohibit human cloning while at the same time protecting very important scientific research. This bill does prohibit human cloning, a topic which has captured the imagination of not only the American people but really the world over the past year after the successful experiment by Ian Wilmut, the Scottish scientist who successfully cloned ``Dolly,'' an adult sheep, using a new technique, a technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer. Public sentiment in response immediately registered, and I think appropriately so, opposition to the application of this specific technique to human beings. Fears that the ``Dolly'' experiment might lead to asexual human reproduction nearly drowned out pleas from the scientific community to protect legitimate cloning research at the cellular and animal level. Congress responded to the public fear by enacting a ban on the Federal funding for any human cloning research at the embryo level, and the President soon after issued an Executive order forbidding implantation of a cloned human embryo with the use of Federal funds.”