TITLE: Dangers of Cloning and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine

CIS-NO: 2002-S431-29  
SOURCE: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Senate  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 107-497  
DATE: Mar. 5, 2002  
LENGTH: iii+63 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1043-A; 1043-B  
SUDOC: Y4.L11/4:S.HRG.107-497  


SUMMARY:
Hearing 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. 44-63) includes witnesses' written statements and written replies to Committee questions, a submitted statement, and correspondence.

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

DESCRIPTORS:  
    BIOTECHNOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; GENETICS; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL REGULATION

02-S431-29 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Mar. 5, 2002 p. 12-16
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   SPECTER, ARLEN (Sen, R-Pa)
   LANDRIEU, MARY L. (Sen, D-La)
 
STATEMENTS:
   Views on proposals to prohibit/restrict human cloning and related research.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning and related research prohibitions, issues review
 
 
02-S431-29 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Mar. 5, 2002 p. 17-43
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   REEVE, CHRISTOPHER (Chairman, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation)
   BERG, PAUL (Director, Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center)
   MURRAY, THOMAS H. (former Presidential Appointee, National Bioethics Advisory Commission)
   NORSIGIAN, JUDY (Executive Director, Boston Women's Health Book Collective)
   NEWMAN, STUART A. (Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Arguments for and against human cloning research; elaboration on the ethical and therapeutic implications of human cloning and related research proposals.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Human cloning and related research prohibitions, issues review

LOAD-DATE: June 5, 2003