While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.
There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.
I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
Human cloning is coming.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.