Embryos Quotations

Stem cell research is the key to developing cures for degenerative conditions like Parkinson's and motor neuron disease from which I and many others suffer. The fact that the cells may come from embryos is not an objection, because the embryos are going to die anyway.

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.

We deeply regret Sen. Frist's endorsement of an embryonic stem cell research policy that would turn living human beings into commodities for exploitation. ... Treating living human embryos as mere fodder for experimentation crosses a vital ethical line and contravenes the sanctity of human life.

We transferred 1,095 embryos and got one dog, ... If I were an investor and someone came in and said we have a technique that works at 0.09%, I'd say that doesn't sound like a good investment.

What we are talking about is 400,000 embryos that are going to be destroyed as medical waste.

I think that we do have the technology at present to clone human embryos and it may be a lot easier than many scientists think.

President Bush believes that we need to explore new methods of deriving new lines that would not result in embryos being destroyed. He feels that we should push the envelope of science in a way that does not cross fundamental moral and ethical lines.

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

Mark and Luke are living rebuttals to the claim that embryos are not people, ... We plead with you not to fund their slaughter.

I think the Stem Cell Resource is going to have a lot of embryos very quickly.

Most dinosaur embryos are from the Cretaceous period (146 to 65 million years ago),

We had always assumed that embryos created from eggs donated by younger women would not have these defects, ... But just the fact that we are seeing this high rate of abnormality suggests that we should be using (PGD) more.

This worm goes from being an embryo to having its own embryos in three days. Even a fruit fly takes 14 days to complete the same cycle.

We expect in two or three months to do an ultrasound to check the embryos and eggs development. After fertilization we are talking a year for pups to be born and with seven gills there could be 60 or more pups.

We should be very cautious not to mislead the public that these two papers demonstrate that we no longer need to do research on human embryos or human embryonic stem cell lines,

Embryonic stem cells can be derived from in vitro fertilized (IVF) embryos that are developed in excess of those needed for the procedure used to enable infertile couples to have children.

draws a strict ethical line by only allowing federally funded research on stem cell lines that were derived ethically from donated embryos determined to be in excess.

IVF is not as successful as we would like it. On average, only one in five or one in six of all the embryos that we generate in the IVF lab has the potential to go to full-term delivery as a baby.

It's not clear it's going to work in human embryos. And in order to determine that we'll have to actually do the research on human embryos and likely destroy some in the process.

In the meantime, ethical research not derived from embryos in the public and private sectors has helped cure almost 60 diseases.

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.

I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]

The cloning of human embryos for the purpose of performing destructive research and experimentation, such as that which just occurred today of 'Baby Eve,' is an aberration. It shows a total lack of respect for life and must be prevented.

Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery.