May 16, 2003
Defining Embryo Death Would Permit Important Research
In the often acrimonious debate about research on human stem cells, the opposing sides have argued over what should be done with the hundreds of thousands of human embryos that have been created through in vitro fertilization but never used. Neither side, however, has asked what might be done with embryos that have died.
President Bush and many other opponents of using human embryos created by cloning or in vitro fertilization to produce stem cells for research hold an essentialist
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