Easily the most unusual and outstanding characteristic of public views on the stem cell and
embryo research issues is a self - reported lack of familiarity with the facts.
Not exact matches
Davis has taken more conservative stances on some other civil liberties
issues, having repeatedly voted to restrict abortion, fertility treatment,
embryo research and LGBT rights.
To Daley, the delays caused by the Bush administration's opposition to stem cell
research are as much of an ethical
issue as the handling of human
embryos themselves, because it actively impedes progress on
research that might benefit millions of Americans.
To recap: On 23 August, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
issued a preliminary injunction freezing National Institutes of Health (NIH) support for hESC
research because it likely violates the Dickey - Wicker law banning federal funds for
research that harms
embryos.
It is dominated by Republican appointees, but some observers believe that is irrelevant because the legal
issues do not involve the ethics of
research involving
embryos, but whether the courts should defer to the way several Administrations have interpreted Dickey - Wicker.
Government plans for an ambitious framework of laws on all biomedical
issues including
embryo research were dropped after widespread opposition three years ago.
In an advance that could solve many of the ethical and technical
issues involved in stem cell
research, two groups of scientists have independently converted human skin cells directly into stem cells without creating or destroying
embryos.
They don't require the use of
embryos, so they avoid some of the ethical and legal
issues that have complicated
research with embryonic stem cells.
This relative absence of knowledge about even the most prominent of the
embryo -
research issues is made emphatically clearer in the responses to particular questions of fact.
As far as I understand it, China has guidelines
issued by the central government, rather than laws governing both
research and clinical applications using human
embryos.
A test vote The bill at
issue would establish a state policy sanctioning
research on both adult and embryonic stem cells as long as patients who donate
embryos for the studies consent in writing.
Last fall, the National Institute of Health
issued guidelines allowing funding of
research on cells from
embryos that otherwise would be discarded.
On the controversial
issue of hybrid
embryos, for instance, he declared «queasiness is not a good reason to prevent
research going ahead that is strictly regulated.»