My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

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

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.

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

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