The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
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.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
