WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Center for Human Life and Bioethics, a division of the Family Research Council, released a landmark statement Thursday on the impact of human cloning on women. FRC asked Members of Congress, who addressed the issue in a hearing Thursday, to support the statement as they consider their positions on human cloning.

Dr. Pia de Solenni, Senior Fellow at the Center for Human Life and Bioethics and co-author of the statement, said, "Human cloning is likely to become a powerful industry built on disadvantaged women." Dr. de Solenni is the author of an article, "In Search of Treatments Through the Cloning Process: How the Hunt for Eggs Exploits Women," published in the July-August 2002 issue of Family Policy. "If any form of cloning is permitted, the industry will need women to donate their eggs. As long as profit depends on women participants, we can be sure that the most vulnerable women will be aggressively pursued regardless of the risk to their health and happiness. In the name of science, biotechnology will literally have its hands inside the bodies of hundreds of millions of poor, disadvantaged women. We must do all we can to stop this from happening."

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