Quotes About In Vitro Fertilization

#1. Like the 'test tube babies' born of in vitro fertilization, cloned children need not be identifiable, much less freaks or outcasts.

Virginia Postrel

#2. A plant bred in a laboratory is no more or less "real" than a baby born through in vitro fertilization. The traits matter, not the process.

Michael Specter

#3. If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they're going to end up being discarded.

Francis Collins

#4. My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Robert Edwards

#5. You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

Ron Reagan

#6. Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

Leon Kass

#7. Is in vitro fertilization where you have all the fun in a glass house?

Dr Steven Bottomley

#8. Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.

Lois Capps

#9. Tell me that and we'll go. Right now. Save ourselves and leave this place to burn. Tell me that's how you want your story to go and we'll write it straight across the sand.

Alwyn Hamilton

#10. We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

William Penn

#11. This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.

Why The Lucky Stiff

#12. It was still mild when they walked home from the party, and Irene looked up at the spring stars. "How far that little candle throws its beams," she exclaimed. "So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

John Cheever

#13. No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.

David Hartman

#15. I'm a lot of fun on a date.

Diane Keaton

#16. Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

Frederick Lenz

#17. In fact the English nurses had spent much of their time stuffing mattresses, stirring gruel, and standing at washtubs, but Lib didn't want the nun to mistake her for an ignorant menial. That was what nobody understood: saving lives often came down to getting a latrine pipe unplugged.

Emma Donoghue

#18. There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger.
"But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.

Suzanne Collins

#19. Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own.

Ovid

#20. [F]or what in this world is worth doing that doesn't require a portion of one's body and soul?

Jamie Kornegay

#21. I feel like I've always loved him, and now I just got lucky enough to find him

Debra Anastasia