Subcommittee members warned them from the outset that they faced a skeptical audience. A federal moratorium now bans the use of federal funding for any research that attempts to create a child by cloning, technically known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. Leadoff witness Thomas Okarma, president of biotechnology company Geron Corporation, urged that current restrictions should be kept. Genie out of the bottle' Republican Rep. Brian Kerns of Indiana introduced legislation today to ban human cloning in the United States. In light of recent developments, it is important that we take a stand and act now to ban human cloning in the United States.
Few laws exist to stop scientists from cloning a human.
Twelve nations worldwide have banned human cloning. The cloned mouse on the right became obese as an adult for no apparent reason. In my work on the House Committee on International Relations, I will seek to build consensus throughout the world on this issue. And he said during questioning that any human experiments would need Food and Drug Administration approval. What we are discussing here is how to put the genie back in the bottle and disseminate it safely.