Cloning Quotes

On human embryonic stem cell research: "I found that the cloning of human embryos will be used in the process and that, for me, I have an ethical problem with that. Why do I, as a taxpayer, have to fund something I believe is unethical?"

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

In cloning, if you put in another nucleus and mess around removing things, chances are you`re disturbing this pattern. You might get a messed-up placenta.

Ninety-nine percent of the work in stem cells does not involve cloning. This episode will have little impact on pace of research in the field as a whole.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I don`t believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

It`s very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

I`ve been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

So far, no scientist has been able to specifically turn any adult stem cell population into good populations of motor-neuron cells. Remember that ALS patients tend to die within four years. Opponents of therapeutic cloning need to remember that we do not have time to waste.

Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any mammalian species, including humans.

The president has made it clear that he is 100 percent opposed to any type of cloning of human embryos. The president supported the House legislation to ban human cloning which passed overwhelmingly.

(He said) therapeutic cloning, ... creating human life for the purpose of exploiting it and a lot of people have ethical problems with that.

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.