This is an edited version of the opening speech at the convention in June of the National Right to Life Committee (the main American pro-life organisation).
President Bush's government is seeking a complete ban on all human cloning, for baby-making or experiments. This ban has passed the House of Representatives but been held up by procedural wrangling in the Senate.
The Dolly agenda
Dolly the sheep was born just a few miles from my former home in Edinburgh, a great Scottish contribution to the problems facing humankind. With that announcement in February 1997, we learned that a second front had been opened in the worldwide struggle for human dignity. For we have long recognised that the firebreak between animals and humans is narrow. It may take a generation for it to be jumped, as happened with artificial insemination developing into in vitro. It may take much less.
