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

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

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

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

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.

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

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