Political Quotes

“this morning, many awoke to the news that South Korean scientists have successfully cloned a mature human embryo. This is an alarming development. Decades ago C.S. Lewis saw the dangers facing human dignity. In his essay ``The Abolition of Man,'' he warned in conquering nature, nature is actually conquering mankind. To clone a human being is to move from procreation to the manufacture of human life. And this is dangerous. My own profession is medicine. A good physician, must, I fundamentally believe, also be a very good scientist. I can tell you from my own experiences as a heart and lung transplant surgeon that without the revolutionary advances in medical science and in technology, my own transplant patients, heart and lung transplant patients of a decade ago, simply would not be alive today. Indeed, we must reject an irrational fear of technological advance. But the secret of human dignity is living within limits. Those are ethical limits and they are moral limits. They are limits that do not hamper human advances but they preserve them and indeed they promote them. We strongly support ethical stem cell research but we reject the cloning of human beings. Not only does human cloning experimentation of any kind offend the conscience, it is not medically necessary.”