Leon Kass Quotes

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.

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.

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

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.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

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.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.