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

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

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.

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

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

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