Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish.
They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.
I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.
To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.
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.
The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
God bless IVF because it's never too late to conceive any more. However, having said that, I have to point out that going through IVF is a gruelling procedure; maybe that's why only a woman can go through it!
Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.
If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.
If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. 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.
One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.
Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.
The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.
It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.
...impregnation will be regarded in an entirely different manner, more in the light of a surgical operation, so that it will be thought not ladylike to have it performed in the natural manner.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.
Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.
We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise as a cloned child.
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
