Quote of the Week

August 25, 2006

My anxiety given how far we have come in just four years is that they (scientists) want a little a bit of cloning now, and in a couple of years time they will want a little bit more cloning, and a few years after that they will want still more cloning and very soon we will have reproductive cloning.

— Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott on a move to overturn a ban on human cloning for research purposes in his country. From “Abbott Warns on Stem Cell Cloning,” The Australian, August 22, 2006.