Des Moines — A bill that will repeal Iowa’s ban on human cloning is being fast tracked in the Senate. Although it was just introduced just last week, the full Senate is expected to debate the SF 162 today.

“Despite misleading information coming out of the Governor’s office and Democratic leadership, this bill is absolutely about human cloning,” said IFPC President Chuck Hurley. “The section of the Iowa Code SF 162 repeals (707B) is titled ‘Human Cloning’ and is introduced in the Code saying ‘the purpose of this chapter is to prohibit human cloning.’ So to say the bill is not about human cloning is absurd.”

The rhetoric claiming this will not repeal cloning is based on the bill’s attempt to redefine the word. According to the bill if you clone to kill for research that’s not cloning, but if you clone to allow the embryo to live that is cloning. Iowans have more common sense than that.

Thousands of emails have been sent to Iowa lawmakers on this issue through our grassroots system alone. “The message is clear, Iowans won’t be fooled by political rhetoric and oppose the mass production of human cloning this bill will allow,” said Hurley.

Hurley is available for further comment.