The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001 and the Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session on H.R. 1644 and H.R. 2172, June 20, 2001

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Stranica 41 - US states and 33 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of health care, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products.
Stranica 3 - All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Stranica 79 - The creation of human embryos specifically for research that will destroy them is unconscionable . . . [I]t is not necessary to be against abortion rights, or to believe human life literally begins at conception, to be deeply alarmed by the notion of scientists...
Stranica 79 - Specter's bill supports embryonic stem cell research but insists that "the research involved shall not result in the creation of human embryos.
Stranica 47 - ... to prevent birth after the transfer has occurred. Consider, a woman who wished to receive the embryonic clone would no doubt seek a judicial restraining order, suing to have the law overturned in the name of a constitutionally protected liberty interest in her own reproductive choice to clone. And should an "illicit clonal pregnancy...
Stranica 72 - In the cloning process the basic relationships of the human person are perverted: filiation, consanguinity, kinship, parenthood. A woman can be the twin sister of her mother, lack a biological father and be the daughter of her grandmother. In vitro fertilization has already led to the confusion of parentage, but cloning will mean the radical rupture of these bonds.
Stranica 47 - ... place within the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship, making outside scrutiny extremely difficult. Many infertility experts probably would obey the law, but others could and would defy it with impunity, their doings covered by the veil of secrecy that is the principle of medical confidentiality. Moreover, the transfer of embryos to begin a pregnancy is a simple procedure (especially compared with manufacturing the embryo in the first place), simple enough that its final steps could be...
Stranica 49 - ... human dignity. The prospect of human cloning, so repulsive to contemplate, is the occasion for deciding whether we shall be slaves of unregulated progress, and ultimately its artifacts, or whether we shall remain free human beings who guide our technique toward the enhancement of human dignity.

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