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

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

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

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

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

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