Cloning Quotes

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.

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.

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

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

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.

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

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

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

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

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

Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life.

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.

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

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

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

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.

President Bush and Bill Clinton both agree that cloning is morally wrong. Clinton said that he thinks humans should be made the old-fashioned way - liquored up in a cheap hotel room.

I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.

The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

Why is human cloning illegal? All it is is making a certain type of person on purpose. Can they possibly be any worse than the assholes we're pumping out by accident?

Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning.

I have more things going on right now than I can actually do without the invention of a cloning device. It is great!

Anybody who objects to cloning on principle has to answer to all the identical twins in the world who might be insulted by the thought that there is something offensive about their very existence. Clones are simply identical twins.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

Until I see proof of this reincarnation or cloning, I'm gonna live up this life. That was kinda the path I took. But I fulfilled my obligations.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

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

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.