Sentences with phrase «of embryos for research»

Even fewer backed the creation of embryos for research purposes.

If their results are confirmed by others, they eliminate yet another argument from the arsenal of those who want to use taxpayer dollars to support and encourage the destruction of embryos for research.

At least one additional member (Charles Krauthammer), though opposed to the deliberate creation by cloning of embryos for research in which they would be destroyed, supported the revocation of President Bush's funding restrictions on the use of embryos that had been produced by in vitro fertilization for reproductive purposes, but were left unused in cryopreservation units in assisted reproduction facilities.

Each of these proposals has considerable merit as an alternative to the generation and destruction of embryos for research» yet for each there are also significant questions about scientific feasibility and ethical soundness.

Laws in the UK also allow for the creation of embryos for research.

Does the possibility of this way forward — that is, using skin cells to create stem cells instead of human embryos — make you more likely or less likely to support the use and destruction of embryos for research?

Some have also argued that at the very least this new discovery means that federal taxpayers should not fund the destruction of embryos for research (which could proceed in the private sector) and public money should support this new alternative.

So even if homosexual reproduction is out, there are a plethera of ethically controversial scenarios, especially the creation and destruction of embryos for research and human enhancement.