Quotes About Human Cloning

#1. Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!

Pope John Paul II

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

Alex Epstein

#3. 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.

Cliff Stearns

#4. The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.

Paul Bloom

#5. 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

#6. 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?

Richard Jeni

#7. 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.

Ken Calvert

#8. Human cloning is coming.

Mike Pence

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

Leon Kass

#10. 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.

Ian Wilmut

#11. When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

Cal Thomas

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

Leon Kass

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

Tony Abbott

#14. The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

Nick Harkaway

#15. I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

David Baltimore

#16. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

#17. The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.

Matt Chandler

#18. How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

Graham Swift

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Sandy Adams

#22. I am an unstoppable killing machine. I am the greatest champion that ever walked the face of this planet.

Dean Ambrose

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

Mitt Romney

#24. Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.

Sophocles

#25. I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

John Gurdon

#26. During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

Sydney Brenner

#27. Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

Robert Burns