Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

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

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

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

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.