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Article: Bush voices intense opposition to human cloning.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- March 29, 2001
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President Bush yesterday made it clear he would work with Congress on legislation that bans human cloning and announced he would readily sign a law that did so.
"The president believes that no research - no research - to create a human being should take place in the United States," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. "The president believes that any attempt to clone a human being would present a grave risk both to the mother and the child. He opposes it on moral grounds."
Mr. Fleischer noted that Mr. Bush supports President Clinton's 1997 executive order banning the use of federal funds for human cloning research.
The White House ...