Word: stemming
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...others? Dr. Michael Soules of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine was even more appalling. He saw nothing wrong with the procedure, except the "timing." Meaning, I suppose, that it would have been better if this news had remained hidden until President Bush had decided whether to fund stem-cell research, believing, falsely, that only discarded embryos were being used...
...other reassurance my side had been giving is that stem-cell research is not about cloning. A day after the news from Norfolk we learned that a laboratory in Worcester, Mass. (the very same lab that three years ago produced a hybrid human-cow embryo) is trying to grow cloned human embryos to produce stem cells--but could be used to produce a full or (even more ghastly) partial human clone. What other monstrosities are going on that we don't know about...
...some people oppose stem-cell research because they believe human life begins at conception. But you don't have to believe that to be apprehensive that stem-cell research may legitimize the mechanization of life, the making of the human fetus into the ultimate guinea pig. People are horrified when a virgin hill is strip-mined for coal; how can they be unmoved when a human embryo is created solely to be strip-mined for its parts...
...decide to give society's imprimatur to stem-cell research, it must be with open eyes and a troubled conscience. These new disclosures of human cloning and the creation of embryos for their deliberate destruction are well-timed reminders of how easily moral barriers can be violated. Federal regulation must therefore be strict and unbending...
...Stem-cell production permitted only from otherwise discarded fertility-clinic embryos or from fetal cadavers...