Whereas the National Right to Life Committee seeks to protect innocent human life from its earliest beginnings until natural death;

Whereas each human life at every stage of biological development is deserving of respect and protection regardless of the circumstances under which that human life was created;

Whereas it has been proposed to create human life through cloning for the purpose of destructive experiments on those human beings so created, resulting in their deaths, and for the purpose of scavenging the bodies of those human beings to obtain tissues and organs, resulting in their deaths;

Therefore be it resolved:

That no human being who is created through cloning should be subject to harmful or lethal experiments or scavenged for tissues or body parts;

That the life of any human being created through cloning should be protected;

That the National Right to Life Committee at this time supports a ban on human cloning and,

That the President and Executive Director are authorized to take whatever action they deem appropriate to implement this resolution.

[Note: U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) has introduced a bill, the “Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001,” addressing this issue.]

Published in VSHL Lifesaver, June 2001