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“Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.”

“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.”

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Author:Paul Bloom

“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?”

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Author:Richard Jeni

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

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Author:Alex Epstein

“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.”

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Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas

“Maybe we will get to this point and reach a decision one way or the other with 'Human cloning is acceptable,' but I doubt that it is ever going to happen for 'It is morally permissible to eat shrimp' or with the general formula 'Adultery is wrong,' whose intended extension is again very unclear.”

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Author:Catherine Wilson

“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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Author:Leon Kass

“Human cloning is coming.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.”

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Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.”

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Author:Mike Pence

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

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Author:Tony Abbott

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

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“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.”

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Author:Cliff Stearns

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

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Author:Leon Kass

“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.”

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Author:Ken Calvert

“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.”

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Book:The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control

Source: The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control

“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.”

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Author:David Baltimore