TITLE: Human Cloning

CIS-NO: 2002-H521-1  
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: June 7, 19, 2001  
LENGTH: iv+95 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-1  
ITEM-NO: 1020-A; 1020-B  
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:107/40  
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2002-7875  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 40. Hearings before the Subcom on Crime to consider the following bills to prohibit human cloning:
   H.R. 1644, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001, to prohibit all forms of human cloning.
   H.R. 2172, the Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001, to prohibit the use of human cloning to initiate a pregnancy and the shipment or transportation of a product of human cloning if the product is intended to initiate a pregnancy.
 
Supplementary material (p. 81-95) includes witnesses' written replies to Subcom questions, articles, correspondence, and a press release.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Human cloning prohibition estab

BILLS: 107 H.R. 1644; 107 H.R. 2172

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON CRIME. HOUSE;  BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; GENETICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL REGULATION; HUMAN CLONING PROHIBITION ACT; CLONING PROHIBITION ACT; PREGNANCY

02-H521-1 TESTIMONY NO: 1     June 7, 2001 p. 2-40
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   KASS, LEON R. (Dr.) (Professor, Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago)
   CALLAHAN, DANIEL (Director, International Program, Hastings Center)
   PRENTICE, DAVID A. (Professor, Life Sciences, Indiana State University)
   SHAPIRO, ROBYN S. (Professor, Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Arguments against human cloning, in light of consideration of H.R. 1644 and H.R. 2172; ethical issues involved in consideration of human cloning; elaboration on need to prohibit human cloning, including cloning for the purpose of producing embryonic cells for use in medical research.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning prohibition estab
 
 
02-H521-1 TESTIMONY NO: 2     June 19, 2001 p. 44-79
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   CAPRON, ALEXANDER M. (Professor, Law and Medicine, University of Southern California School of Law; representing National Bioethics Advisory Commission)
   ELSHTAIN, JEAN B. (Professor, Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago)
   BRADLEY, GERARD V. (Professor, Law, Notre Dame Law School)
   OKARMA, THOMAS B. (President and CEO, Geron Corp.; also representing Biotechnology Industry Organization)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Perspectives on H.R. 1644 and H.R. 2172; ethical and legal issues involved in consideration of human cloning; importance of cloning to produce embryonic cells for use in medical research.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning prohibition estab
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   NATIONAL BIOETHICS ADVISORY COMMISSION; GERON CORP.; BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION

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