Cloning: Legal, Medical, Ethical and Social Issues: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Health and Environment of the Committee on Commerce U.S. House of Representatives
Chainnan Bilirakis and Members of the Sub-Committee on Health and Environment, I appreciate the invitation to testify before you today on the profound and critically important issue of human cloning, and am grateful that you are so diligently addressing and pursuing the infonnation necessary upon which to ground a clear and defensible public policy in this area.' I would like to emphasize that what I have to say today is not simply a matter of my own opinion; nor is it a religious or theological position, nor grounded on any " faith" or " belief' system. To the contrary, it is directly based on fully referenced, objectively known scientific facts scientific facts which anyone can ascertain simply by going to their local library. The bottom-line question concerning human cloning not just by