The eternal connection of sex with the creation of human beings will no longer be a necessary truth. And there will also be germ-line therapy and enhancement genetics and all the other things bioethicists worry about. I think bioethics has to face the fact that these changes will be our reality. The job of bioethics is to teach us how to live meaningfully and ethically in this strange new world. And this brings me to my second point.
Some people think there is a contradiction between religion and science.
But I think that spirituality, especially deep inner calmness and faith, immovable in spite of what happens in our material lives, is of greatest importance in a chaotically changing universe. Our careers and academic reputations seem important. I think bioethics should teach about health, love, the disinterested pursuit of truth, friends, family, nature, simple pleasures. If bioethics can teach more simplicity then perhaps there will be fewer suicides in the new world of high biotech.