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" Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. "

" An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems. "

" As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own. "

" Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. "

" Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. "

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

" Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit. "

" Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. "

" I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. "

" I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. "

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

" If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. "

" I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them. "

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

" In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. "

" Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. "

" 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. "

" It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country. "

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

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

" Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes. "

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

" Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. "

" The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. "

" The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. "

" The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics. "

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