Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. – Leon Kass
Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children. – Leon Kass
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
The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. – Leon Kass
In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual – the cloned child is the product not of two but of one. – Leon Kass
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. – 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
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture. – Leon Kass
In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman. – Leon Kass
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated. – Leon Kass
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. – Leon Kass
The neuroscience area – which is absolutely in its infancy – is much more important than genetics. – Leon Kass
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. – Leon Kass
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether. – Leon Kass
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the… cleverness that we have to make changes. – Leon Kass
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal. – Leon Kass
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. – Leon Kass
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. – 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
If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before it starts. – Leon Kass
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. – 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
