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

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.