Cloning Quotes

• Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Example, Danger

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• 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

  Hysteria, Needs, May

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• The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

  Lewis Thomas

  Flower, Sunshine, Science

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Made, Should, Fine

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• I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

  George W. Bush

  Life, Mean, Science

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Creating, Humanity

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• There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Dna, Eggs, Two

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• I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning.

  Mitt Romney

  Creating, Cells, Research

  Press conference, May 2005.

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• There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

  Ted Danson

  People, Lists, Should

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• Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

  Leon Kass

  Children, Parent, Looks

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

  Leon Kass

  Process, Reproductive Health, Preventing

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• Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Mankind, Eternal Life, Eternal

  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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• Cloning creates ordinary children. They will be unique individuals, not photocopies of individuals.

  Severino Antinori

  Children, Unique, Ordinary

  "Team to attempt human cloning", www.cnn.com. March 9, 2001.

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• We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Cousin, Years

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• I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

  David Baltimore

  Running, Thinking, Technology

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• Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear.

  Catherine Wilson

  Decision, Doubt, Shrimp

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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

  Purpose, Research, Bills

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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.

  Leon Kass

  Country, Effort, Corny

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• The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Talking, People, Decision

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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

  January, Prohibition, Legislation

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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

  Argument, Relation, Effects

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• 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

  People, Calling, Slippery Slope

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• President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, President, Bills

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• 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

  Principles, Answers, World

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• I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didn’t even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of women—of embryos, of eggs, of bodies—by a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasn’t freedom from men but total control by men.

  Vandana Shiva

  Children, Men, Eggs

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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