Stem Cell Research Quotes - Page 2

• There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

  Virginia Foxx

  Lying, Cells, Exaggeration Is

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• Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

  Tom Allen

  Cells, August, Research

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• To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

  Mike Pence

  Cells, Miracle, Adults

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

  Ron Reagan

  Cells, Research, Consistent

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

  Louise Slaughter

  Country, Fall, Moving Forward

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• I am pro-life, I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.

  Bill Frist

  Believe, Cells, Pro Life

  "Bush ally to back stem cell bill". news.bbc.co.uk. July 29, 2005.

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• Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year. (25)

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Fighting, Condom Use

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• What President Obama has done so masterfully of late is to say, in so many words, "I'm signing this executive order permitting federal funding for stem cell research, but I realize that many good, moral people are opposed to this, and I don't take that lightly." I think we can be more civil and empathetic in our discussions of public policy, and I hope my book can be a contribution to that tone.

  Kevin Roose

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I would like people to understand the rationale for my embryonic stem cell research decision and how the process became distorted over time.

  George W. Bush

  Cells, People, Decision

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  Source: inters.org

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• A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.

  Howard Gardner

  Running, Cells, Office

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

  Jodi Picoult

  Issues, Cells, America

  Source: www.canadianliving.com

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• For me, moral questions such as stem-cell research turn upon whether suffering is caused. In this case, clearly none is. The embryos have no nervous system. But that's not an issue discussed publicly. The issue is, Are they human? If you are an absolutist moralist, you say, "These cells are human, and therefore they deserve some kind of special moral treatment."

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Issues, Suffering

  Source: inters.org

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• An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

  Joe Donnelly

  Cells, Community, Research

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• Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

  Ron Kind

  Believe, Cells, Numbers

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• The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Cancer, Stupidity

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

  Orrin Hatch

  Life, Hope, Science

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• So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. Eugenics.

  Glenn Beck

  Eugenics, Cells, Research

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• Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

  Tom Harkin

  Cells, Support, Promise

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• To all conservative women out there: If you are so sure the embryo needed for stem cell research are precious human life that can't be destroyed, then implant one in your uterus and bring it to term. That's right, put your cervix where your mouth is.

  Bill Maher

  Cells, Uterus, Research

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.9, Rodale

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• Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

  Patti Davis

  Father, Alzheimer's, Cells

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• Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.

  Gordon Brown

  Cells, Numbers, Our World

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• I will work and fight for stem cell research.

  Mitt Romney

  Fighting, Cells, Research

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• if you search the bible, you will find no reference to birth control or gay marriage, and you will not find a word, strangely, about stem cell research. I have searched.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Bible, Gay, Cells

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• We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

  Michael Steele

  Cells, Support, Doe

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