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CWA Reminds AMA: A Clone by Any Other Name is Still a Clone! 6/17/2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Concerned Women for America President Sandy Rios expressed disappointment that the American Medical Association would break from the physician’s creed to “do no harm” and announce support for human cloning for experimental purposes.
“By choosing science devoid of ethics or concern for human beings,” said Rios, “these physicians have shown a lack of sensitivity to patients’ well-being, ethical standards and human rights. This does not bode well for the public’s trust in their doctors who are represented by the American Medical Association.”
“There is no difference between cloning for reproduction and cloning for experimentation,” Rios explained. “It is the same procedure, emanating out of the same dangerous mindset – that human beings are commodities to be created and destroyed at will.”
Lawmakers have been working toward passing a bill to ban all types of human cloning for the last two years. On February 27, 2003, the House of Representatives passed, 241-155, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, to ban the creation of human embryos by cloning. The Senate has yet to act on a human cloning ban. President Bush strongly supports a ban on human cloning, and rejects a “partial ban” that allows human cloning for research.
“The AMA bucks against attempts to regulate the scientific community,” said Wendy Wright, CWA’s Senior Policy Director. “But poor judgment such as this endorsement for human cloning reveals why it is necessary. Congress should act now to ban human cloning. Clearly the American Medical Association lacks the ability to follow well-established ethical standards.”
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