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ISSUES RAISED BY HUMAN CLONINGRESEARCHWEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2001HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE,SUBCOMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATIONS,Washington, DC.The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 a.m., in room2123, Rayburn House Office Building, James C. Greenwood (chairman)presiding.Members present: Representatives Greenwood, Stearns, Largent,Burr, Whitfield, Bass, Tauzin (ex officio), Deutsch, Strickland,DeGette, John, and Rush.Staff present: Alan Slobodin, majority counsel; Julie Corcoran,majority counsel; Ray Shepherd, majority counsel; Robert Simison,professional staff member; Chris Knaur, minority investigator; andJohn Ford, minority counsel.Mr. GREENWOOD. All right, the hearing before the Oversight andInvestigations Subcommittee will now come to order. We thank thewitnesses for their indulgence and the Chair recognizes himself for5 minutes for the purposes of an opening statement.Nearly 80 years ago, Aldous Huxley wrote his literary masterpieceBrave New World. In that book he posited a future where geneticengineering is commonplace and human beings, aided bycloning, are mass produced. Controllers and predestinators replacedmothers and fathers. The words themselves consideredsmut.As the new authors of human life in an uncompromising searchfor human happiness and stability, the possibility of human individualityhad been entirely jettisoned. For most of its 80 years,Brave New World could be seen as a disturbing work of science fiction.That is no longer the case. The possible cloning of humanbeings is now relegated to the world—not relegated to the world offiction. The question we must now ask is this: what should we dowith this science? That is what brings us here today.Several scientists claim that they are poised to take the fatefulnext step and actually produce a human clone. We in this subcommitteewill focus not only on the scientific, but on the moraland ethical questions raised by the astonishing possibility that anexact copy of a human being might be cloned in the near future.What then is cloning? The World Book Encyclopedia describescloning as a process that involves ‘‘destroying the nucleus of an eggcell of the species to be cloned. The nucleus is then removed froma body cell of an animal of the same species. This donor nucleus(1)VerDate 11-MAY-2000 07:46 May 24, 2001 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 71495.TXT HCOM2 PsN: HCOM2
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Page 3: C O N T E N T SPageTestimony of:Boi
Page 7 and 8: 3Would human cloning lessen the wor
Page 9 and 10: 5Chairman TAUZIN. Thank you, Mr. Ch
Page 11 and 12: 7and cell therapy and beta cell dev
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Page 17 and 18: 13seen in the common phrase, being
Page 20 and 21: 16a want of capacity to live were a
Page 22 and 23: 18eight to ten weeks gestation as a
Page 24 and 25: 20Washington v. Glucksberg ignores
Page 26 and 27: 22tion decision. The father of ‘
Page 28 and 29: 24been treated as ‘‘sui generis
Page 30 and 31: 26Perhaps the three most compelling
Page 32 and 33: 28are their genes. We know that chi
Page 34 and 35: 30ago, Nobel Prize-winning biologis
Page 36 and 37: 32Mr. JOHN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman
Page 38 and 39: 34Mr. GREENWOOD. The Chair thanks t
Page 40 and 41: 36to turn undifferentiated human pl
Page 42 and 43: 38these issues have not yet even be
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Page 46 and 47: 42mately 150 days of gestation and
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50from the testes of infertile men
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52not be taken away from people, be
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54a result of this declaration, I w
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56Too much pressure, too many expec
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58requires some level of scientific
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60an abnormal person. So I think it
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62to the world, back to this earthl
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64which is not true for cow which i
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66Ms. BOISSELIER. University of Hou
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68Ms. BOISSELIER. Soon.Ms. DEGETTE.
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70Mr. ZAVOS. No, no. We believe tha
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72cloning process. And without that
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74have to look at the structure of
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76Mr. LARGENT. So the answer is no,
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78that very much and you are excuse
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80that people have incorrectly stat
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82My name is Dr. Thomas Murray. I
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84human subjects against irresponsi
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86might be born as a result of this
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88ever, it is not unusual for the g
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90Mr. DEUTSCH. Because there really
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92Ms. ZOON. When we found out about
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94Mr. GREENWOOD. The time of the ge
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96Be that as it may I think there a
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98There has been progress in the cl
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100may find that it is a terrible e
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102entists tried to get this ban ov
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104lies in our hands. And we face a
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106clude Ireland, Israel, Italy, Fr
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108strict IVF and similar high-tech
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110while ‘‘clone then love’
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112What Cloning Is Not—The ‘‘
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114And the largest group of people
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116The last piece to the legal puzz
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118cloning law on both scientific f
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120mendous potential human safety r
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122age him to do this research and
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124I realize there have been calls
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126‘‘from which I have no assoc
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128TO HAVE CHILDREN,’’ I ask th
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130of ourselves as humans in our pr
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132Our Genetic Science Task Force c
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134But this was also true in occide
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136So we utilized good science to d
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138egg and so on. What you’re tal
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140Mr. DEUTSCH. I think that’s ac
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142and dad? We all did that when we
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144Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act or
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146Mister Chairman, the embryo may
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148The current low rate of cloning
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150TIME magazine’s pictorial, ‘
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152John A. Robertson, University of
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