With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now.… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
The use of fetuses as organ and tissue donors is a ticking time bomb of bioethics. — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Do good in the name of children. Do good in the name of public health. — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
There has never been just 'coach class' health care, but with these amenities you are seeing people get priorities according to your ability to… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's that the… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
![“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.” quote by Arthur Caplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de9/arthur-caplan-37880_baby_the-time-to-talk-about-it-genetic-engine_204728.jpg)
![“[Cloning] can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through…” quote by Arthur Caplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/358/arthur-caplan-37880_cloning_cloning-can-t-make-you-immortal-because_1097057.jpg)
