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Senate Must Act to Ban Human Cloning Immediately (for immediate freeper action)
National Right to Life Press Release ^
| 11.25.01
| Douglas Johnson
Posted on 11/25/2001 6:10:30 PM PST by victim soul
National Right to Life Urges Rapid Senate Approval of Bill to Ban Cloned Human Embryo Farming
The following statement was issued by NRLC in response to the report by persons associated with Advanced Cell Technology, a Massachusetts biotech firm, that they have created human embryos by cloning. This statement may be attributed to NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson:
"This corporation is creating human embryos for the sole purpose of killing them and harvesting their cells. Unless Congress acts quickly, this corporation and others will be opening human embryo farms."
On July 31, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 265-162 in favor of the Weldon-Stupak bill (H.R. 2505), which would ban all cloning of human beings, including human embryos. The U.S. Senate is currently scheduled to vote on such legislation in February or March. Johnson said that in light of today's report, the Senate should act immediately to approve the ban on human cloning. "Any senator who votes against the ban on human cloning will be voting to approve human embryo farms opening for business soon," Johnson said.
One defender of the Advanced Cell Technology cloning experiments reportedly claimed that the embryos were not "human" life, but "cellular" life. Johnson commented, "Each of us began our individual life as an embryo. We were human when we were embryos, and these cloned embryos are human lives, too. Once begun, human lives -- including human lives begun by cloning -- should be protected, not killed to provide biological raw material."
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Orwell lives!! One defender of the Advanced Cell Technology cloning experiments reportedly claimed that the embryos were not "human" life, but "cellular" life.
To: victim soul
Senate Must Act to Ban Human Cloning Immediately (for immediate freeper action)Nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense. Might as well ban airplanes, landing on the moon and the cure for polio.
To: The Shootist
When does an individual human lifetime begin?
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posted on
11/25/2001 6:24:59 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: MHGinTN
When does an individual human lifetime begin? Historically and legally?
At birth.
To: The Shootist
Nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense. Might as well ban airplanes, landing on the moon and the cure for polioConcur.
The technology is out there. You can't stop it.
It is best, however, that it is our technology. Guard it closely; use it wisely.
To: The Shootist
Nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense. Might as well ban airplanes, landing on the moon and the cure for polio. Not good analogies.
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posted on
11/25/2001 6:35:06 PM PST
by
tallhappy
To: The Shootist
I agree. Cloning cells will lead to the cure of many diseases, which will be its primary benefit to mankind.
Someday the Republican Party will be shed of its troglodyte know-nothing faction.
The GOP the party of complete economic and political freedom, and unlimited opportunity. Not the party of militant clerics.
Milton Friedman, yes. Pat Robertson, no.
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posted on
11/25/2001 6:38:38 PM PST
by
motife
To: eddie willers
6 cells does not constitute a true embryo.. A blastocyst can be considered an embryo. I believe that consists of hundreds of cells and at that time the cells begin to differintiate into organs and tissue. At that point you would have the making of a human or other lifeform. The cloning of humans will take place even if the USA outlaws it. The talk by our Representatives and President Bush is being made for political reasons ( don't want to lose votes). Let's do it, refine it, and make life better for those who are suffering from spinal injuries or are in need of organ transplants. Much easier to grow the part than harvest it from another human ( unless you are in China )
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posted on
11/25/2001 6:41:23 PM PST
by
Renegade
To: eddie willers
When does an individual human lifetime begin, biologically?
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posted on
11/25/2001 6:43:49 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: The Shootist
You are correct, but I would describe it as UTTER nonsense.
To: MHGinTN
When does an individual human lifetime begin, biologically? Irrelevant....its legal that counts.
To: motife
"Someday the Republican Party will be shed of its troglodyte know-nothing faction"
...who will continue their postings on Free Republic?
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posted on
11/25/2001 6:54:13 PM PST
by
APBaer
To: eddie willers
If you are not able to answer the question, the response 'irrelevent' isn't a good substitute, though you are a quick study to respond so coldly so quickly.
When does an individual human lifetime begin, biologically?
I already know that a birth certificate is only issued for the time of delivery from the woman's body. My question is, when, biologically, does an individual's lifetime begin?
I also know that insurance companies now pay for fetal surgeries to the preborn, placing a name on the paperwork for the individual human being the insurance company recognizes as an entity for insurance payment purposes (not the woman giving life support but the one receiving the life support), and that's prior to birth. So, when does an individual human lifetime begin, biologically?
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posted on
11/25/2001 7:00:22 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
To: eddie willers
morally, when? AT CONCEPTION. Perversely? At birth.
To: Renegade
Of course, you don't care about the thousands of deformed humans who will come out of the process, do you?
To: eddie willers
I would think God transcends the law.
To: MHGinTN
So, when does an individual human lifetime begin, biologically? When does the drinking age begin?
To: rwfromkansas
I would think God transcends the law. Render unto Caesar.
To: victim soul
I suspect they have gone even farther than announced. Usually, with technology, by the time the scientists announce their "breakthroughs", they have gone way beyond the so called "new advancement.
Embyro cloning is probably just the tip of the iceberg.
Human cloning is a truly frightening prospect indeed, but I thought it had already been banned.
Since it is not technically a "life" perhaps it can be destroyed in the same sense that a "fetus" can?
To: eddie willers
I think eighteen or twenty-one ... anyway, you're driving me to drink! Mmmm, a nice Parrots Bay Rum on the rocks would taste good right now.
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posted on
11/25/2001 7:13:21 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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