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Cloning Quote by Leon Kass

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

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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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“Paul closed his eyes and turned his face to the sun. In spite of everything, it was hard not to take solace from the…

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We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial…

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The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing…

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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…

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In early January I introduced my legislation, which, besides prohibiting Federal funding of human cloning, also expresses the sense of Congress that foreign nations…

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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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Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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

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You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

Patricia Richardson

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The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the…

Michael Tsarion

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What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now…

Charles Krauthammer

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