TITLE: Cloning, 2002, Special Hearings

CIS-NO: 2002-S181-44  
SOURCE: Committee on Appropriations. Senate  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 107-541  
DATE: Jan. 24, Mar. 12, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+66 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1033; 1033-A  
SUDOC: Y4.AP6/2:S.HRG.107-541  


SUMMARY:
Hearing before the Subcom on Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations to examine various proposals to prohibit or regulate human cloning and related human embryo research, in light of ethical concerns. Assesses the potential impact of proposed cloning restrictions on biotechnology and anticipated therapeutic applications.
 
Supplementary material (p. 65-66) includes a submitted statement.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Human cloning and related research prohibitions, issues review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON LABOR, HHS, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS. SENATE;  BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; GENETICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL REGULATION

02-S181-44 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Jan. 24, 2002 p. 4-35
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   WEISSMAN, IRVING L. (Dr.) (Professor, Stanford Medical School; representing National Academies Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning)
   JAENISCH, RUDOLPH (Dr.) (Professor, Biology, MIT and Whitehead Institute)
   BLACKWELDER, BRENT (President, Friends of the Earth)
   MICHEJDA, MARIA (Dr.) (Senior Research Advisor, Immunology Center, Georgetown University Medical Center)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Explanation of differences between reproductive and therapeutic cloning; differing opinions on the feasibility and advisability of cloning.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning and related research prohibitions, issues review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   FRIENDS OF THE EARTH; NATIONAL ACADEMIES PANEL ON SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL ASPECTS OF HUMAN CLONING
 
 
02-S181-44 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Mar. 12, 2002 p. 39-51
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   MACK, CONNIE (former Senator, Florida)
   STUPAK, BART (Rep, D-Mich)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Differing views on proposed human cloning prohibition.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning and related research prohibitions, issues review
 
 
02-S181-44 TESTIMONY NO: 3     Mar. 12, 2002 p. 52-65
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   FISCHBACH, GERALD D. (Dr.) (Dean, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; representing Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research)
   ITESCU, SILVIU (Dr.) (Director, Transplantation Immunology, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University)
   KLINE, KEVIN (actor)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Views on possible therapeutic applications of embryonic stem cell research and cloning.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning and related research prohibitions, issues review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   COALITION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL RESEARCH

LOAD-DATE: June 5, 2003