QUEENSLAND Right to Life is calling on Catholics to join in lobbying Federal MPs and senators to reject the push to legalise human cloning in Australia.
A debate on Senator Kay Patterson’s private member’s bill to lift the ban on creating human embryos for stem cell research is scheduled to begin in the Senate on November 6.
Prime Minister John Howard has said he will allow a conscience vote when the bill comes before Parliament.
Queensland Right to Life vice-president Alan Baker said the best chance to defeat the bill was in the Senate before it was debated in the House of Representatives in late November.
Meanwhile, Nationals Senate leader Senator Ron Boswell of Queensland, said in an address to his party’s federal council on October 14-15 that advocates of cloning were asking people to have faith, not in their science, because it did not exist yet, but in their faith that it will exist one day.
He said the cloning bill was asking legislators to sign off on a technology that was yet to be developed, had not been tested on animals, had no proof of principle and no one could tell how many eggs from women and rabbits will be needed in the process.
