Biotechnology and the Ethics of Cloning: How Far Should We Go? : Hearing Before the Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, March 5, 1997, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997 - 59 páginas |
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Página 7 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
Página 16 - Chairwoman and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to participate in this important hearing. This concludes my prepared statement about the remarkable cloning experiment and its possible impact on livestock production.
Página 26 - Commission undertake a thorough review of the legal and ethical issues associated with the use of this technology, and report back to me within ninety days with recommendations on possible federal actions to prevent its abuse.
Página 29 - ... enhance the effectiveness of transgenic production in several respects. Two examples include: 1. Enabling the breeding of a large number of offspring from a female founder in a single generation. This could allow the acceleration of herd expansion, clinical trials, and product launch. 2. Further insuring the biochemical identity of material from different animals, by eliminating variability in background genetic factors. This factor could be of great value in areas such as the breeding of animals...
Página 30 - ... Technology Transgenic technology involves the transfer of genetic material from one species to another, and can be used for a wide range of medical purposes. [Cloning may offer some potential for improving the efficiency of various applications of this technology]. Let me give you...
Página 7 - I am urging the entire scientific and medical community, every foundation, every university, every industry that supports work in this area to heed the federal government's example.
Página 30 - I am confident that everyone in the biotechnology industry shares the unequivocal conviction that there is no place for the cloning of human beings in our society and rec-ognizes that we must work within accepted societal limits.
Página 7 - Each human life is unique, born of a miracle that reaches beyond laboratory science. I believe we must respect this profound gift and resist the temptation to replicate ourselves." With this introduction, he proceeded to issue a directive that "bans the use of any federal funds for any cloning of human beings" and asked the scientific community in the private sector for a "voluntary moratorium on the cloning of human beings.
Página 6 - ... issue is fully examined. However we must be careful not to impose restrictions that are not needed at this time and that have the unintended result of halting cloning research in areas that do not involve the cloning of humans but do involve potential advances in treating or preventing human diseases. Officials of the government, the scientific community and the private sector must come together to consider the serious questions involving cloning research — not only in the United States, but...