Stem Cells from aborted fetuses

[Rudey]

I didn't know Rowley was on the council. I know Kass is. Kass is a great speaker. Rowley is brilliant but she bored me in a couple lectures.

Anyway, here is the link to the president's council on bioethics: http://www.bioethics.gov/

-Rudey

Originally posted by DWAlphaGam
Here is an interesting article written by two of the members of the President's Council on Bioethics:

Reason as Our Guide by Elizabeth Blackburn and Janet Rowley

*Basically, this article is saying that some of the reports written by the President's Council on Bioethics were biased and contained incomplete information. Here is an excerpt:



And here is some correspondence regarding the article:

Taking the Stem Cell Debate to the Public by Leonard I. Zon, Laurie Zoloth, and Suzanne Kadereit

*This is a pro-stem cell research article. Here is an excerpt:



Beyond Therapy … by Robert Sinsheimer

*This one disagrees with the first authors' approach and reasoning, but agrees with stem cell research:



Ethics as Our Guide by Michael Cook

*This article is concerned about the lack of ethics in the first article, and seems to be somewhat anti-stem cell research:



Scientists and Bioethics Councils by Anne McLaren

*This article is written by a UK researcher that agrees with a lack of scientific evidence in the President's Council:



A Voice for Research, a Voice for Patients by Daniel Perry

*This article complains about the lack of patients on the President's Council:



Ethereal Ethics by Robin Lovell-Badge

*This article was written by a member of bioethics councils in the U.K., and criticizes the U.S.'s approach to stem cell research (the U.K. has been supportive of such research):




Anyway, sorry about the long post, but I thought some people might be interested in what the scientific community is saying about the topic.