Last week, Dr. Dobson encouraged concerned citizens to call Sen. Daschle’s office, but the calls, normally answered by office staff, were forwarded to a number that required an access code to leave messages. Daschle’s South Dakota office admitted that the change was made because of the volume of calls received in the Washington, D.C., office on Friday. Dobson criticized Daschle for this and other obstructions.

"Senator Daschle is not only obstructing the democratic process, but thumbing his nose at the House, the president and the American public," said Carrie Gordon Earll, Bioethics Analyst for Focus on the Family. "As an elected public servant, he has an obligation to set aside his personal agenda and allow a fair and impartial hearing of the Brownback cloning ban.

"Human embryos are not a natural resource, like lumber, nor are they farm animals to be bred for profit and sold as commodities. Civilized people do not resort to cannibalizing their young for their spare cellular parts."

Studies show most Americans agree. A May 2002 Gallup/USA Today/CNN poll revealed that 90 percent of Americans oppose human cloning designed specifically to result in the birth of a human being and 61 percent oppose cloning human beings for experimentation.