"James Kelly: This is a topic that I discussed with Dr. Young of Rutgers. Dr. Young is in favor of therapeutic cloning, and he pointed out to me on the Internet, his Internet forum, speaking on the moral issues, he said that why ban cloning in the United States when somebody might be able to get on a plane, fly to England, whatever, if it was available, if it was a treatment, and be cloned? The only way we could find out whether or not they actually had such a therapy upon their return would be to do a DNA check of all returning people to the United States, which is ... of course is not going to happen. My response to Dr. Young and here again, my reasons for even looking into this in the first place and for opposing cloning on the scientific reasons I've mentioned in my opening five minutes, my response to Dr. Young is, people can get on a plane, and they can fly to other countries. NBC mentioned the Eastern European countries as one where they might be able to engage in child prostitution. Does that mean that we should make child prostitution legal in the United States? Because if cloning is going to be banned, it's going to be banned because of these scientific reasons. It's going to be banned for moral reasons. That's why the ... that's why Senator Brownback proposed the legislation. And if it's banned for moral reasons, we shouldn't change our moral perspective in the United States simply because somebody else somewhere else in the world says something is moral that we in the United States have decided is immoral."
Cloning

January 1, 1970

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