--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:How will govenments that inhibit stem cell research be viewed?
Poorly, I imagine. I don't support this particular position of the President's. Although the apparent Democratic position - that no ethical limits on medical research may ever be made - I reject, of course.
Here are a couple limits mentioned by Edwards recently; consent of the parents required before embryonic stem cells are used for research and opposition to human cloning.
http://tinyurl.com/5e5cw
"Scientists would be able to use federal funds to isolate and study stem cells from fertility clinic embryos no longer wanted by parents -- embryos, Edwards said, "that would otherwise be discarded or frozen indefinitely." Consent would be required of the parents. And proposed experiments would have to pass muster with an ethics committee at the academic or research institution where the work would be done.
Edwards also reiterated the Democratic ticket's support for "therapeutic" cloning, which involves the creation of cloned human embryos as a source of stem cells. He rejected the notion that embryo cloning was synonymous with human cloning, which he said he and Kerry oppose. Edwards promised an increase in funding for embryonic stem cell research to at least four times the $25 million spent by the federal government in fiscal 2003."
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