Embryos 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.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn`t have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell.

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people`s money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

We can manipulate that process where normally genetic information is expelled, so that we can create eggs and embryos whose genetic constitution is identical to the mother,

We should be very cautious not to mislead the public that these two papers demonstrate that we no longer need to do research on human embryos or human embryonic stem cell lines,

It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and hence, what we should expect would be late abortions -- either occurring spontaneously or being induced deliberately in the second or third trimester of pregnancy -- in order to prevent the birth of abnormal children,

While we didn`t do it because we were trying to help another couple, we were trying to get pregnant and have a family ourselves. The aspect of being able to help another couple finish off their in-vitro fertilization process and have those embryos get another chance, made it super for us.

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.

We deeply regret Sen. Frist`s endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating living human embryos as mere fodder for experimentation crosses a vital ethical line and contravenes the sanctity of human life.