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.

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

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

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

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

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.