Leon Kass

“What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?”

“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.”

“We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years.”

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

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

“Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.”

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

“Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.”

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

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

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

“Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.”

“The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.”