Leon Kass

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

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

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

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

It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.

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.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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

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.

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