Ask president to prohibit human cloning

To the editor:

U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle assured the public and U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback that Senate Bill 1899 (Brownback-Landrieu Human Cloning Prohibition Act) would be scheduled for debate after the Memorial Day recess. The bill was scheduled to be debated next Tuesday. Once again Daschle has played his procedural games, causing a stalemate on the issue in the Senate.

Please contact President Bush and ask him to issue an executive order that would prohibit federally funded institutions and laboratories from conducting human cloning. Ask him to make sure that no tax dollars are used for the cloning of mammals, because humans are mammals.

You can e-mail the White House at president@whitehouse.gov. You can phone 202-456-1414. You can also send a fax to 202-456-2461.

CHRISTINE E. STEPHENS

Cape Girardeau