«There are perfectly ethical ways
of obtaining stem cells to cure disease, which do not involve
embryo destruction, so no matter what moral value one places
on the
human embryo, we do not need to use it.»
In August, federally funded work
on stem cells was temporarily suspended after a judge ruled that work
on hESCs violates a legal amendment in 1995 forbidding funding
of any experiments that involve
destruction of human embryos.