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Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
— Leon Kass
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
— Leon Kass
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
— Leon Kass
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
— Leon Kass
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
— Leon Kass
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
— Leon Kass
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
— Leon Kass
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
— Leon Kass
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts.
— Leon Kass
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.
— Leon Kass
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
— Leon Kass
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
— Leon Kass
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.
— Leon Kass
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.
— Leon Kass
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
— Leon Kass
In some crucial cases ... repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason's power completely to articulate it.
— Leon R. Kass
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
— Leon Kass
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
— Leon Kass
I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
— Leon Kass
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
— Leon Kass
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
— Leon Kass
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
— Leon Kass
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
— Leon Kass
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
— Leon Kass
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the ... cleverness that we have to make changes.
— Leon Kass
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
— Leon Kass
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.
— Leon Kass
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
— Leon Kass
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.
— Leon Kass
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
— Leon Kass
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
— Leon Kass
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
— Leon Kass
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
— Leon Kass