Embryonic Quotes

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. - Ron Reagan

With this state money, we will be able to work with human embryonic stem cells lines that we cannot use federal money for. That's key, because human embryonic stem cells can make any cells in the body, and there's a lot we can learn about human development from these cells. - Diane Krause

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before. - Gail Sheehy

While human embryonic stem cell research is still at a very early stage, the limitations put in place in 2001 will, over time, slow our ability to bring potential new treatments for certain diseases. - Bill Frist

What we've seen in the past were embryonic efforts. We've finally reached the point with everyone in the state ... where we've developed that synergy of moving everybody along. - Fred Humes

Well, there are two kinds of stem cells: adult stem cells, which you can get from any part of a grown body, and embryonic stem cells. These are the inner- core of days-old embryos that can develop into any kind of cell. - Mort Kondracke

We think it's important that taxpayer funding should not go into embryonic stem cell research and the destruction of living human embryos. - Barbara Lyons

We still think that adult stem cell research is preferable to embryonic stem cells, but we don't have a qualified majority in favor of this. - Elisabeth Gehrer

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. - Andrew La Barbera

We saw a dramatic change in the level of interest in state funding of embryonic stem cell research last year, and we expect the momentum to continue this year. - Alissa Johnson