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...some infertile couples, should grieving parents really be pursuing this route? "It's a sign of our growing despotism over the next generation," argues University of Chicago bioethicist Leon Kass. Cloning introduces the possibility of parents' making choices for their children far more fundamental than whether to give them piano lessons or straighten their teeth. "It's not just that parents will have particular hopes for these children," says Kass. "They will have expectations based on a life that has already been lived. What a thing to do?to carry on the life of a person who has died...
...went to Depaul for 2 years but I had to transfer as a sophomore becasue Harvard didn't accept my piano credits," Bennett quipped...
...some infertile couples, should grieving parents really be pursuing this route? "It's a sign of our growing despotism over the next generation," argues University of Chicago bioethicist Leon Kass. Cloning introduces the possibility of parents' making choices for their children far more fundamental than whether to give them piano lessons or straighten their teeth. "It's not just that parents will have particular hopes for these children," says Kass. "They will have expectations based on a life that has already been lived. What a thing to do--to carry on the life of a person who has died...
...such as who got the better grade, who scored more points in a basketball game, who had more friends. But neither of us had to live with the idea that she was created to match up to the other's best features. A cloned child might not play the piano as well as the original. Or be as smart...
...much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants to keep as home. Hannah, Victoria, Esther, Loice, Mary and Charity have said their prayers and are tucked into their bunk beds. The prized upright piano she and Bruce bought last November sits in her bedroom, ready for the morning's hymns. And as the policemen, cadres and other details of the communist state tromp through her living room, she simply retreats to the back room and to her Bible. "I have survived this terrible thing...