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There are a lot of people highly motivated to be the first to clone a human.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

There is a pent-up demand from people who want to clone their dead children.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

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.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.