About Leon Kass:
Leon Richard Kass is an American physician, scientist, educator, and public intellectual, best known as proponent of liberal education via the "Great Books," as an opponent of human cloning, life extension and euthanasia, as a critic of certain areas of technological progress and embryo research, and for his controversial tenure as chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2005. Although Kass is often referred to as a bioethicist, he eschews the term and refers to himself as "an old-fashioned humanist. A humanist is concerned broadly with all aspects of human life, not just the ethical."
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Leon KassI don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Leon KassLimits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Leon Kass