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    Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

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    An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

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    Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

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    But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case against Washington politics. When you see what can happen to a page or a junior congressman, it passes on in a very real way, not in a history-class sense, that reality of what political power really is, .. Who are we to impose this emotional albatross on public servants? As a nation, we pretend to elect our leaders. It seems unjust to make them a special class to suffer for our sins over wrongheaded laws, or pay a continuing emotional price for securing their future careers.

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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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    Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

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    Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

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

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    Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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    I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.

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    I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

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

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    If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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

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    In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

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    In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.

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

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

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    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.

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

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

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    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.

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

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    Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

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

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    The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

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    The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

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

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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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    The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

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    We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

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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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    We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.