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Getting Stem Cells Right
A true, no-cost resolution of a conflict, where the interests of all parties are served without compromise, is an exceedingly rare thing. Yet just such an unlikely resolution may...
Stem Cells and Babies
Positions on human embryonic stem-cell research tend to fall into two camps: Either anything goes, or nothing goes. Proponents of the anything-goes position assert that the potential scientific and...
Whose View of Life? Embryos, Cloning, and Stem Cells
The question of when human life commences is one of longstanding philosophical and scientific interest. In our day it has been thrust into the realm of immediate urgency by...
Stem Cells and False Hopes
We have all witnessed the transforming power of hope—the focus and sustenance hope provides when strength and reason fail to pull us through a difficult situation. Facing tragedy and...