Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

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

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

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

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.

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

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