jews, catholics, and biotechnology 

jews, catholics, and biotechnology

This piece by William Saletan strikes me as really excellent journalism: some of the debate behind the deliberations of the President's Council on Bioethics.

Jews emphasize questions, with few answers (like Socrates and Leo Strauss); Catholics offer more answers (like Aquinas). Jews are more likely to accept abortion--at least until viability or so. Catholics are more likely to overcome the "yuck" factor on the new biotechnology advances, and actually recommend some of them if the lines are clear. Jews are more likely to be cautious and uncertain.

One Jew says Catholics have "a ridiculous faith in reason." I guess this means: a faith that the old tension between reason and revelation has been resolved.