A person is someone's totality. If your brain stem is alive and kicking, you are alive and kicking. It's because God thinks of us, irrespective of our awareness, that we are persons.

This is so tiny it can go where no one has ever gone before. (Nano-particles) can cross the blood-brain barrier. The general concern is that the safety work really has to be done or people won't trust the products.

What we do with dogs we may well end up doing with our kids.

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Euthanasia, of course, is the next round of that discussion, ... It's a lot more difficult because with euthanasia, the life wants to be taken. So you can't say, 'Poor fetus, nobody asked the fetus.' It's, 'Poor old guy, somebody asked him and he said, please do it.'

It seems to me that our culture is going through a crisis of its vision of what it means to be human.