The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
From Leon Kass
The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
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