I read a short article today about Leon Kass, Bush's choice to head his
"bio-ethics" panel.
The explicitness and aware depth of his bio-ludditism is something I have
not seen before in the mainstream. Unfortunately, I think it's the beginning
of a sad trend. The URL:
"http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010810/pl/stemcell_kass_dc_1.html"
>From the article:
According to a published account he told one recent medical ethics meeting
``the finitude of human life is a blessing for every individual, whether he
knows it or not.'' He has also expressed concern that so-called medical and
genetic ''enhancements'' are really part of a questionable search for
immortality.
In a 1985 book ``Toward a More Natural Science'' he said society's
``dissection of cadavers, organ transplantation, cosmetic surgery, body
shops, laboratory fertilization, surrogate wombs, gender change surgery''
and the like were an attempt to insist on independence and autonomy ``with
little respect for the nature and meaning of bodily life.''
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Zeb Haradon (zebharadon@hotmail.com)
My personal webpage:
http://www.inconnect.com/~zharadon/ubunix
A movie I'm directing:
http://www.elevatormovie.com
"What is this, some Three Stooges episode where everyone is armed with pies?
Bill Gates is supposed to walk through the airport with an armful of pies
so that he can stoop to the level of his attackers?" -Chris Russo
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