quotes about Cloning
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Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.
-- Claude VorilhonSource : Charles Tandy, William Faloon, Robert A. Freitas, Jr., Robin Hanson, Michael Perry (2001). “Doctor Tandy's First Guide to Life Extension and Transhumanity”, p.155, Universal-Publishers
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In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations should establish total prohibition on human cloning as well.
-- Cliff Stearns -
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
-- David Baltimore -
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
-- Douglas Coupland -
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
-- Douglas Coupland -
The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.
-- Ian WilmutSource : Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell, Colin Tudge (2001). “The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control”, p.298, Harvard University Press
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The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.
-- Ken Calvert -
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
-- Leon Kass -
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I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
-- Leon Kass -
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
-- Leon Kass -
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
-- Leon Kass -
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
-- Leon Kass -
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It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
-- Leon Kass -
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
-- Mike Pence -
We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
-- Panayiotis Zavos -
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You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.
-- Patricia Richardson -
Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.
-- Sandy Adams -
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Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.
-- Severino AntinoriSource : "Team to attempt human cloning", www.cnn.com. March 9, 2001.
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Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.
-- Alex Epstein -
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.
-- Arthur Caplan -
Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.
-- Leroy Hood -