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...ethical? Is it moral? Thomson, a nonpracticing Congregationalist who is married to a fellow scientist and is the father of two young children, wasn't sure. He read every study he could get his hands on and consulted, among others, University of Wisconsin bioethicists R. Alta Charo and Norman Fost. Since the embryos he planned to use were doomed anyway--one of the arguments cited by Bush--he decided he was justified by the good that might come of the research. "I could not see that throwing them out was better," he says...