Bioethics and the Progressive Neocons

Some progressives have progressed so far that they've become technophobic reactionaries.

Ronald Bailey | January 12, 2010

Let's play a game. Take a minute to guess the background political ideologies behind each of the quotes below dealing with the ethical implications of new biotechnologies:

(1) "The technologies are going to be accessible to affluent couples and would be used in ways that could increase inequality. The last thing we need now is a genetic elite.”

(2) “Practically speaking, cloning is the opening wedge for a series of technologies that ultimately lead to designer babies. If cloning is allowed now, it will be harder to oppose germ-line engineering to enhance babies in the future.”

(3) "Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."

(4) “Cloning of a human being is intuitively and properly viewed with almost uniform horror, because replication of a human by cloning would radically alter the very definition of what a human being is.” READ MORE REASON