When debating the views and opinions of Leon Kass, chair of the President’s Council of Bioethics, it’s rather hard to get past the point at which he says he wants to use government power to ensure medical technology for healthy life extension is never developed or used.
Dubbing Kass’s approach “legislated murder” seems rather hyperbolic to me. On the other hand, it’s very difficult to call Kass’s approach “pro life” either.