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Senator Won't Rule Out Filibuster To Ban Human Cloning
Monday, November 26, 2001
By Christine Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer

The National Right to Life Committee warned of "human embryo farms."

CAPITOL HILL
Word that a Massachusetts research company has cloned a human embryo for the first time has renewed calls for Congress to ban the practice.

"We've been after governments around the world for doing experiments on prisoners, we've been on them for harvesting body parts, and yet now we've let it happen in our own society," said Sen. Sam Brownback (R -Kansas), addressing reporters on Monday in Washington.

Brownback said he will try to get Senate leaders to clear the way for an immediate vote on his bill banning human cloning but would not rule out a filibuster to force the issue.

Earlier in the annual budgeting process, he had agreed to postpone the matter until March of 2002. But the announcement of a successful effort at human cloning made the matter urgent, Brownback told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference.
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