Leon Kass

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

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

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

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

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Sexuality itself means mortality - equally for both man and woman.

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

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

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

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.