Cloning Quotes

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

  Ted Danson

  People, Lists, Should

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

  Leon Kass

  Human Cloning, Humans

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• We're beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Giving Up, Tired, Divorce

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• Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

  Douglas Coupland

  Disappear Completely, Royalty, Wells

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• Human cloning is coming.

  Mike Pence

  Human Cloning, Humans

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

  Leon Kass

  Believe, Successful, Effort

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

  Leon Kass

  Children, Two, Contrast

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• The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

  Sandy Adams

  Government, Cells, Support

  "Sandy Adams, candidate for U.S. House district 24". Interview, dampfang.com. August 18, 2010.

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• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  Panayiotis Zavos

  World, Jordan, Rich

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

  Mike Pence

  Amendments, Breakthrough, Questionable

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

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• I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.'s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.

  Holly Madison

  Girl, Jealous, Perfect

  "The Girls Next Door". Comedy, Reality-TV, Romance, www.imdb.com. (2005 - ).

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