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

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

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

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

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

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

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