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.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

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

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.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

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

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.