And because no human life should be started or ended as the object of an experiment, I ask you to set a high standard for humanity and pass a law against all human cloning.

CNN: Transcript of State of the Union

The Republican lawmakers, most of whom are against abortion, said bans should remain on creating human life through cloning or other means.

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And yet it is the dignity of human possibility to be found in nascent life that should lead us treat it not less well than it deserves.

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Pro-life and religious groups will ultimately feel that the bank signals the start of a commodification of human life and that the special status granted to human embryonic material - the requirement that it should be used only for research that would lead to the creation of life - has now changed.

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Because we believe in human dignity, we should take seriously the protection of life from exploitation under any pretext.

CNN: Transcript of Bush's U.N. address

They regard it as unacceptable that scientists should "sacrifice" an embryo, which has the potential for human life, merely to harvest particular cells.

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If God prized human life enough to bind himself to it through incarnation, then you, barbarian warrior, should not murder.

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Observe that no one argues that since medications are critical to human life and no CEO could possibly keep track of all the activities done by all the operators, big pharma companies should be broken into smaller ones so that company leaders will be more likely to catch poor quality operations which could result in mass deaths.

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