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Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
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