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Amendment No. 1771 to Amendment No. 1502

Floor Speech

Date: May 26, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Science

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Mr. BRAUN. Madam President, I call up my amendment No. 1771 and ask that it be reported by number.

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Mr. BRAUN. Madam President, in recent years, research involving human-animal hybrids has become much more prevalent. For example, in April, researchers in China created a monkey-human hybrid embryo that they allowed to grow and studied for weeks.

I have serious ethical concerns with this type of human chimera research. My amendment would ban the practice by applying the NIH's current anti-chimera policy universally.

Due to the dangerous and offensive nature of this research, my amendment imposes penalties on those who participate in this unethical research.

We must act now. Just this morning, the International Society for Stem Cell Research, an international standards-setting body, issued guidance that permits the creation of human-animal hybrids. I ask that my Senate colleagues reject this foreign position and maintain our own NIH's ethical standards.

All life is sacred. It is Congress's responsibility to enact commonsense bioethics.

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Mr. BRAUN. Please support this amendment.
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