An Embryonic Debate
The importance of shedding more light than heat on stem cell research March 2005
Newspapers, radio and television regularly report on scientific breakthroughs in—and public protests against— human embryonic stem cell research. Actors Michael J. Fox (who has Parkinson’s disease) and the late Christopher Reeve (who was paralyzed after a spinal cord injury) have been high-profile advocates of research to derive and study human embryonic stem cells. In the political…