Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. |
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years. |
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it. |
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. |
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children. |
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning. |
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. |
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. |
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. |