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Actor and Feminist
for Life Member Margaret Colin WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Actor and Feminist for Life (FFL) member Margaret Colin will testify on human cloning at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. The hearing is scheduled for May 2nd at 2:30 p.m., Room 253, Russell Senate Office Building. Ms. Colin will offer a pro-life, feminist perspective approach to the issue of human cloning. The subcommittee will specifically address the issue of cloning human beings for research purposes - i.e., creating new human life only for the purpose of destroying it to obtain raw research materials. Because FFL opposes all forms of violence as inconsistent with feminist principles, FFL rejects the creation of human life for the purpose of destroying it. FFL rejects utilitarian arguments that would exchange one life for the arguable "greater good" of another. Each individual should be treated as a whole being, worthy of respect, and not a mere sum of his or her parts. The proper role of science should be to help human life, not victimize, trivialize and end it. FFL supports promising new alternatives including stem cells acquired from consenting adults, women donating placenta and umbilical cord blood donations - even stem cells from fat. Margaret Colin's career includes film, theater and television. Her film credits include Independence Day, The Devil's Own and Three Men and a Baby. She appeared as Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis in the hit Broadway show Jackie. She has appeared on the TV series Chicago Hope and in the critically acclaimed TV movie about abortion, Swing Vote. Ms. Colin was profiled in the Winter 2000/2001 issues of FFL's The American Feminist, an issue dedicated to "Remarkable Pro-Life Women." |