Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
From Leon Kass
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
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