Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.