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In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
Leon Kass
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Leon Kass
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Born:
Feb 12
,
1939
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We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
Robin Williams
Had
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Years
South
Cloning
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Leon Kass
Other
Other Countries
UN
Countries
Make
Ban
Cloning
Efforts
Human
Banned
Human Cloning
Many
Universal
We live in a science fictional world with things like cloning and face transplants, and things seem to be getting stranger and stranger.
Alastair Reynolds
Science
World
Face
Live
Seem
Like
Cloning
Getting
Fictional
Stranger
Things
Simon Cowell is trying to get everyone to clone their dogs, and we've had our dogs 'done' so they can't have puppies any more. Cloning is like modern day reproducing - reproducing the bits you want.
Ayda Field
Day
You
Everyone
Our
Bits
Puppies
More
Simon
Had
Like
Dogs
Clone
Cloning
Get
Trying
Modern
Any
Done
Want
Reproducing
Modern-Day
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Work
Animals
Something
Very
Cloning
Get
Different
Required
Humans
Numbers
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
David Baltimore
You
People
Will
Made
Argument
Congress
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Has-Been
Slope
Allow
Calling
Been
Cloning
Get
Reproductive
Then
Therapeutic
If society becomes comfortable with cloning and sees value in true human diversity, then the whole Neanderthal creature itself could be cloned by a surrogate mother chimp - or by an extremely adventurous female human.
George M. Church
Mother
Value
Diversity
Society
Extremely
Sees
Could
True
Adventurous
Comfortable
Female
Becomes
Surrogate
Itself
Cloning
Human
Then
Whole
Creature
At some point, someone will come up with an airtight argument as to why they should have a cloned child. At that point, cloning will be acceptable.
George M. Church
Will
Argument
Some
Someone
Point
Come
Acceptable
Up
Cloning
Child
Should
Why
If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.
Gregory Stock
Future
Diabetes
Congress
Research
Those
Out
Would
Would-Be
Embryonic
Be Real
Laws
Supported
Over
Name
Concern
Alzheimer
Real
His
Cloning
Disease
Diseases
Victims
Might
Succeeds
Lent
Petition
Dr
Present
Bring
Treatments
I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details.
Hendrik Poinar
Matter
Animals
Inevitable
Laughed
Out
Laughing
Spielberg
Details
About
Steven
Steven Spielberg
Said
Least
Cloning
Going
Just
Anymore
Happen
Working
Extinct
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