Robert Lanza Quotes

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

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

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

This [human cloning] is an unethical human experiment on the child to be. It is a major step in the conversion of procreation to manufacture.

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

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

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

This is a matter far too important to be left solely in the hands of the scientific and medical communities. The belief that surrogate mothers and clonal babies are inevitable because science always moves forward, an attitude expressed to me recently by a scientific colleague, represents a form of laissez-faire nonsense dismally reminiscent of the creed that American business, if left to itself, will solve everybody's problems. Just as the success of a corporate body in making money need not set the human condition ahead, neither does every scientific advance automatically make our lives more 'meaningful.' No doubt the person whose experimental skill will eventually bring forth a clonal baby will be given wide notoriety. But the child who grows up knowing that the world wants another Picasso may view his creator in a different light.

We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

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.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

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

Science is not inherently good.

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.

No one really has the guts to say it, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

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.

Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.

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

All parties to the human embryo debate have something vital to defend.

What is a human embryo? Is it a person or is it a piece of property.