In response to President Bush's call on Congress to ban all human cloning, the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Weldon-Stupak Human Cloning Prohibition Act (H.R. 534), and the U.S. Senate introduced the Brownback-Landrieu bill (S. 245). The House recently passed H.R. 534 after first defeating a "clone-and-kill" bill to allow the creation of human "embryo farms" for the purpose of harvesting their parts before destroying them. In the Senate a "clone-and- kill" bill (S. 303) has been introduced by Senators Hatch (R-UT) and Feinstein (D-CA) that is misleadingly labeled as "a ban on cloning" but would actually allow the cloning of human embryos to be killed in research.
CONTACT SENATOR LINCOLN & PRYOR WITH THIS MESSAGE:
I am strongly opposed to the clone-and-kill legislation (S.303) being proposed by Senators Hatch and Feinstein that would permit human embryos to be cloned and require that they be killed by two weeks of age. A vote for the Hatch-Feinstein proposal is a vote to permit human embryo farms, and requires the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies the unethical task of destroying human embryos that may be cloned for reproductive purposes. Please support the only true cloning ban, S.245, the Brownback-Landrieu bill. Thank you.
Letters can be sent by regular mail at U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510, but because of security concerns there are sometimes considerable delays in delivery and counting of regular mail. Therefore, e-mail, faxes and phone calls are highly recommended:
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Senator Blanche Lincoln D.C. Office Arkansas Office |
Internet www.senate.gov/~lincoln Phone 202-224-4843 - Fax: 202-228-1371 Phone 501-375-2993 - Fax: 501-375-7064 |
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Senator Mark Pryor D.C. Office Arkansas Office |
Email: mark_pryor@pryor.senate.gov Phone 202-224-2353 - Fax: 202-228-0908 Phone 501-324-6336 - Fax: 501-324-5320 |
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