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Leon Kass
Leon Kass
American Educator
Born: Feb 12, 1939
About Child Cloning Human Life People
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. Leon Kass
Other Other Countries UN Countries Make Ban Cloning Efforts Human Banned Human Cloning Many Universal
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. Leon Kass
Progress Benefits Hazards Clear Powerful Obvious Well Much Less Biomedical Appreciated
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. Leon Kass
Life Woman Abortion Case Fetus Pits Against Pregnant Pregnant Woman Interests
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. Leon Kass
Innovation Important Indeed Possibilities Economic Economic Growth Human Enhancement Growth Technological
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. Leon Kass
Example Danger Immediate Clear Powerful Very Cloning Represents Which Procreation Turning Manufacture
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. Leon Kass
Seriously Before Starts Must Preventing Cloning Stop Process Reproductive Interested
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. Leon Kass
Suffering Everybody Promise Relieve Enthusiastic About Almost Cure Disease Biotechnology
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. Leon Kass
Parents Relation Degrading Parenthood Between Like Looks Cloning Children Perversion Right
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters. Leon Kass
Family Argument Relations About Make Effects Very Cloning Hard
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. Leon Kass
Life Science Life Is A Biology Late Meaning Notion
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
Every Our Step Exists Child Short Wanted Wants Should Belief Satisfy
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. Leon Kass
Life You Once Slippery Slippery Slope No Boundaries Slope Put Boundaries Knows Hands Human Human Life Started
The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal. Leon Kass
Animal Evolved Human Human Animal Social
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. Leon Kass
Cloning Contrast Child Reproduction Product Two
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful. Leon Kass
Believe Prohibit Only Cloning Efforts So-Called Reproductive Successful
I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites. Leon Kass
Thoughts Bites Like Forced Reduce Sound Sound Bites Being
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
Life Generation Long Argument Possible Self Longer Devoted Well-Being Covet Much Next Next Generation
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe. Leon Kass
Would Would-Be Vitro Advance Knew Nobody Safe Fertilization Large
One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Leon Kass
Wise People Engineering Enough Kinds Some About Simply Talking Doing Caution May Proceed Should Things
The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life. Leon Kass
Life Disposition Machinery Just Technical
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. Leon Kass
Generation Somewhere Way Make Came Lineage Going Next Next Generation
We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture. Leon Kass
Culture Somehow Just Reproduce Even
We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years. Leon Kass
Nothing Know Years Going Next
We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice. Leon Kass
Parents Our Existence Owe Choice Actually
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing. Leon Kass
Wise People Engineering Enough Kinds Some About Simply Talking Doing May Things

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