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Cloning Research Exploits Women and Always Ends in Death 2/12/2004 Washington, D.C. — Concerned Women for America called on the U.S. government to act quickly to ban all forms of human cloning in the United States after an announcement today that South Korean scientists have grown human cloned embryos.
“There is no difference between cloning for reproduction and cloning for experimentation,” said Sandy Rios, president of CWA. “It is the same procedure, emanating out of the same dangerous mindset – that human beings are commodities to be created and destroyed at will.”
“Embryos deserve respect, as the earliest form of human life,” said Wendy Wright, senior policy director for CWA. “To cavalierly treat new human life as disposable material should cause great concern over who will be next.”
The House of Representatives passed the Human Cloning Prohibition Act (H.R. 534) by a vote of 241 to 155 on February 27, 2003. Concerned Women for America is actively lobbying for a Senate vote on the bill.
CWA has demonstrated that cloning research will exploit women, particularly those in undeveloped countries, where women have already been targeted as egg donors. “Women were subjected to powerful drugs, and their eggs mined without consideration for the effect on the women,” Wright said.
Even the so-called benefits touted by human cloning advocates are refuted by the results of current cloning experimentation. “Most cloned animals have serious genetic defects,” Wright said. “It stands to reason that the early stage of these cloned animals – embryos – would carry these defects. Cloned embryos are not likely to be healthy. Some scientists seem more obsessed with experimenting on humans than honestly trying to find cures.”
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