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"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."

"To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license."

"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."

"There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion."

"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream."

"The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless."

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."

"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."
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"It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants."


"It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country."


"In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman."


"Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children."


"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."


"In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one."


"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."


"There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given."
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