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“As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.”

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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

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The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

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

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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.

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We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

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The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

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

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Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

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

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Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

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