BOSTON, June 1, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Massachusetts legislature has moved to override Governor Mitt Romney’s veto of a bill that allows the creation of cloned human embryos to be used for destructive medical experimentation.
In a vote in which both chambers exceeded the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto - 112-42 in the House and 35-2 in the Senate – the state of Massachusetts is ready to enter into the business of human experimentation on a large scale.
New Jersey, Connecticut and California have approved bills that allow living human beings to be used for experimental research and approve massive state funding.
Until recently many in the research community had predicted that experiments to create cloned humans were decades away from success but on May 20th, maverick Korean scientist, Dr. Woo Suk Hwang announced that he had not only created cloned human embryos, but that he had tailored them for use by specific patients.
Governor Romney, not exactly pro-life, but opposed to creating cloned human beings for experimentation, said that the bill will allow a practice that “amounts to creating life in order to destroy it.”
Not at all reassuring for those who understand the deadly implications of cloning, are the bill’s conditions that human cloning, the use of living human beings for organ farming, and experimentation on unwilling live human test subjects, require “guidelines, advisory panels and a peer review board,” before such work can be approved. There is little doubt that most, if not all requests, will be approved.
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