“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.”
— Stephen Hawking, "Hawking criticises EU states trying to ban stem cell research". The Independent (2006)
“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 CNN Interview With Justin Falconer; Interview With Ron Reagan Jr. (2004)
“No live human embryo derived from in vitro fertilisation, whether frozen or unfrozen, may be kept alive, if not transferred to a woman beyond fourteen days after fertilisation, nor may it be used as a research subject beyond fourteen days after fertilisation. This fourteen day period does not include any time during which the embryo may have been frozen.”
— Mary Warnock Warnock Report of the Committee of INquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology p.79

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