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• But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

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  Real, Emotional, Class

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• Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

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  Children, Parent, Copies

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• Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

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  Self, Long, Generations

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• I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

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  Sound, My Thoughts, Bites

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• Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

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  Children, Responsibility, Care

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• Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

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  Life Is, Biology, Late

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• In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

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  Children, Two, Cloning

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• If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

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  Cloning, Process, Reproductive Health

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• Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

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  Country, Mean, Wish

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• Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

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  Country, Effort, Cloning

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• I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

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  Believe, Successful, Effort

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• If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Self

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• Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

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  Mean, Men, Sexuality

  Amy A. Kass, Leon Kass (2000). “Wing to wing, oar to oar: readings on courting and marrying”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

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  Culture

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• We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

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  Generations, Way, Next

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• We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

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  Choices, Parent, Existence

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• An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

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  Idaho, Offering, Kind

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• The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

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  Unlimited

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• As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

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  Creating, Might, Made

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• It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

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  Children, Want, Steps

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