Shinya Yamanaka Quotes

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.

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

The right-to-life movement and the Roman Catholic Church are saying that it is better to destroy these embryos, or preferably have them adopted - which is not going to happen - than to use them for research.

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.

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.

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people's money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.

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

Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

There are lots of other issues in policy including the stem cell issue.

We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.

The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.

I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.

Stem cell research has become such a polarizing issue in America... and I wanted to bring it down to the personal level, instead of the political.

The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

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

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

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