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1. Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
2. We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
3. Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
4. The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
5. Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
6. 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.
7. There’s an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
8. The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
9. Sexuality itself means mortality — equally for both man and woman.
10. Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
11. The neuroscience area — which is absolutely in its infancy — is much more important than genetics.
12. We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
13. If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
14. We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn’t have a choice.
15. Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
16. In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
17. I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
18. We know next to nothing of what we’re going to know in 20 or 50 years.
19. I don’t believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
20. Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.