One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

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

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

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The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

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We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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