Congressional and Other Testimony
Testimony of Richard M. Doerflinger before the Senate Finance Committee Maryland General Assembly in support of Senate Bill 362 “Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007” – Click here to read
Testimony in Support of “Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2006” before the Health and Government Operations Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates – March 17, 2006
- William Saunders, Jr., JD, Senior Fellow in Bioethics and Human Rights Counsel, Family Research Council
“Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research after Seoul: Examining exploitation, fraud and ethical problems in the research” (Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources) – March 7, 2006 (PDF from the U.S. GPO)
- Opening Statement of Chairman Mark Souder
- Richard A. Chole, M.D, Ph.D., Lindberg Professor and Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
- Judy Norsigian, Executive Director, Our Bodies Ourselves; Co-author of “Our Bodies, Ourselves”
- Diane Beeson, M.A., PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology and Social Services, California State University, East Bay
- Richard Doerflinger, Deputy Director, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
PowerPoint Presentation by David Prentice, Ph.D.: Adult Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells and Cloning
Testimony of Richard M. Doerflinger before the House Health and Government Operations Committee Maryland Legislature In support of House Bill 885 “Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2005” – March 3, 2005
- Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (PDF)
Deposition: Superior Court of the State of California – Lawsuit on Proposition 71 – August 2, 2004
Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee – March 5, 2004
- Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (PDF)
Delaware House of Representatives, Health and Human Development Committee – January 14, 2004
- Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation, Science , Technology and Space Subcommittee Testimony – March 27, 2003 (PDF from the U.S. GPO)
- Dr. John Bruchalski
- Dr. Maria del Carmen Bustillo, South Florida Institute for Reproductive Medicine
- Ms. Lynne Millican, Patient Advocate
- Ms. R. Alto Charo, Prof. of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools
- Mr. Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director, International Center for Technology Assessment
- Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Senate Judiciary Testimony on Promoting Ethical Regenerative Medicine Research and Prohibiting Immoral Human Reproductive Cloning (PDF from the U.S. GPO)
- Dr. Leon Kass, Chairman, The President’s Council on Bioethics
- Dr. Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Dr. Thomas Murray, President, The Hastings Institute
- Dr. Anton Lewis-Usala, Professor, East Carolina University
- Dr. Micheline Matthews-Roth, Associate Professor, Harvard University Medical School
- Dr. Paul Berg, Cahill Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University
- James Kelly, Patient Advocate
- Greg Wasson, Patient Advocate
- The Hon. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
- The Hon. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
Letter to John A. Hurson, Chairman of the Maryland Health & Government Operations Committee, Robert P. George (Princeton), Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard), Alfonso Gómez-Lobo (Georgetown), William Hurlbut (Stanford) and Gilbert Meilaender (Valparaiso), of The President’s Council on Bioethics – March 12, 2003
Testimony Before the Maryland Legislature – March 12, 2003
- Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, Ryan Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, Georgetown University
- Richard Doerflinger, Deputy Director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops – March 12, 2003
Presentation for US House Members and Staff by David Prentice, Ph.D. PowerPoint Presentation
Testimony to the New Jersey State Assembly on Stem Cell Research by James Kelly, Patient Advocate for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Testimony Before Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee: Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee – January 29, 2003 (PDF from U.S. GPO)
- Senator Sam Brownback
- Dr. Leon R. Kass, Chairman, The President’s Council on Bioethics
- Congressman Dave Weldon
- James Kelly, Spinal Cord Injury Research Activist
Alternatives to Embryo Research: An Update – August 2002, David Prentice PowerPoint Presentation
Senate Briefing – June 7, 2002, David Prentice’s PowerPoint Presentation
Testimony Before House Hearings on Human Cloning – May 15, 2002
Statements from the “Cures Not Clones” Senate Briefing – April 10, 2002
- Joni Eareckson Tada
- James Kelly
- Jean D. Peduzzi-Nelson, Ph.D.
- Thomas P. Dooley, Ph.D.
- Anton-Lewis Usala, M.D.
- Yuri Mantilla, LLM, MA
Testimony Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Hearings on The Dangers of Cloning and the Promise of Regenerative Medicine, March 5, 2002
Testimony from Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, February 5, 2002 (PDF from U.S. GPO)
- Andrew Kimbrell, JD
- Kevin T. FitzGerald, SJ, PhD
Briefing for Senate Staff on Cloning, November 30, 2001 – Statement by William Saunders, Jr., JD
Briefing for Congressional Staff on Cloning, June 26, 2001 – Statement by Nigel M. de S. Cameron, PhD
Testimony from Hearings on H.R. 1644, Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001, Before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health – June 20, 2001 (PDF from U.S. GPO)
- Leon Kass, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
- Stuart Newman, PhD, New York Medical College
- Judy Norsigian, Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
- Francis Fukuyama, George Mason University
- Richard M. Doerflinger, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Testimony from Hearings on H.R. 1644, Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001, Before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime – June 19, 2001 (PDF from U.S. House Judiciary Committee)
- Jean Bethke Elshtain, PhD, University of Chicago
- Gerard V. Bradley, JD, University of Notre Dame
Testimony from Hearings on H.R. 1644, Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001, Before the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime – June 7, 2001 (PDF from U.S. House Judiciary Committee)
- Daniel Callahan, PhD, The Hastings Center
- Leon Kass, PhD, University of Chicago
- David Prentice, PhD, Indiana State University
Testimony from Hearings on Issues Raised by Human Cloning Research Before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space – May 2, 2001 (PDF from U.S. GPO)
- Margaret Colin, Feminists for Life
- Leon Kass, PhD, University of Chicago
- William Kristol, The Bioethics Project
- Robert A. Best, Culture of Life Foundation
- Richard M. Doerflinger, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
- Jaydee Hanson, United Methodist Church
Testimony from Hearings on Issues Raised by Human Cloning Research Before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations – March 28, 2001 (PDF from U.S House Committee on Energy and Commerce)
- Jaydee Hanson, United Methodist Church
- Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Wilberforce Forum