The problem today is not to be in favor or against human cloning, but to be in favor or against freedom of science. 

I have with me a manifesto signed by 31 top scientists and philosophers of the world, including Francis Crick, co- discoverer of the structure of DNA, and numerous Nobel Prize laureates who support the freedom for human cloning as a part of freedom of science, and I have copies of this manifesto for each and every one of you.

Why did I ask Dr Brigitte Boisselier to create the first human cloning company in America?  Because as The Country of Freedom, you have a Constitution which should be a model for the whole world, and -the most wonderful jewel of your system: the Supreme Court, which guarantees the respect of your Constitution and the freedom of your citizens even against your own government and law makers.  

This includes the separation of church and state, and it means in fact a separation of church and science.  

 I am quite confident that even if human cloning was banned, the Supreme Court would cancel this law as unconstitutional, as they did for IVF.  If, 100 years ago, the religious powers could have passed laws against the freedom of science, we, today, would have no antibiotics, surgery, blood transfusions, organ transplants, vaccinations, cars, electricity, computers, airplanes, etc. 

Stopping science is a crime against humanity.  

 If discoveries were forbidden 100 years ago, 3 billion people would never have enjoyed life, dying at very early stages of their existence, and that may have included your own parents, and yourself. We can say that at least 90 % of us are still alive today thanks to science. 3 billion people, this is more than any other criminal against humanity ever killed, including Hitler or Napoleon.

Today you have in your hands the life of billions of people, alive now, and future generations. You have the choice to be remembered as heroes for saving billions of lives or as criminals against humanity for denying them a possible cure or a new life by retarding scientific progress.

Retarding only, because it will be done anyway, somewhere, some day, as, thankfully, nothing can stop science. But laws can slow down research and it is the people who will suffer from it. And you will be responsible for the delay and the deaths and the suffering it will create. These deaths and suffering can be yours as well, as lawmakers are not immune to sudden diseases, or those of your own children or grand children. Remember that they may die without a cure because of your own laws slowing down science.

Religious people who are against human cloning should be free to refuse it for themselves or their own children, as they are free to refuse abortion, blood transfusion or surgery. If one day human cloning makes it possible for us to reach eternal life, and it will, they should also be free to die, as nobody should be forced to live eternally. But for those who enjoy life, are atheists, and want to enjoy the fruits of scientific progress, including human cloning and eternal life thanks to it, should also have the freedom to benefit from it.  

If religions and superstitions, which are the same, had power over science, we would still be living in the dark ages. 

Your great Constitution includes the freedom of religion, and that means also the freedom to be atheist, like we, the Raelians are, the freedom to believe that there is no god as we Raelians believe and more and more Americans believe.

We, Raelians, believe that science should be our religion, as science saves lives, while religion and superstitions kill. Science destroys superstition and supernatural beliefs.  

That’s why religion was always an enemy of science and progress and is again trying to stop science at its best. By letting the people decide if they want to benefit or not from human cloning, you are protecting the rights of the “unreborn”, as cloning makes possible a second chance to live for infants like the one we are cloning now, a 10 month old baby killed by medical malpractice. It could be your beloved child or grandchild. Think about him… 

Lawmakers should not be accomplices of dark age powers and superstitions as they will be judged by History.  

Don’t burn Giordano Bruno alive again! Killing him was a crime against humanity by the Catholic church. As well as burning alive thousands of people during the Inquisition, thousands of Moslems during the crusades, thousands of Jews, thousands of Protestants, thousands of black people by supporting slavery. What would the world say if the nazi power was still in place in Germany and didn’t apologize for his crimes? The power in Rome is still in place and is now committing a new crime against humanity by trying to slow down science and human cloning with a new inquisition. 

But I am avenging Giordano Bruno!