We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
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.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
