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Is it acceptable to destroy a human embryo for research if it will someday result in lifesaving therapies?

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Is it acceptable to destroy a human embryo for research if it will someday result in lifesaving therapies?

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Most critics of embryonic stem cell research argue that the research is unethical because extracting stem cells destroys a human embryo. Thus, the debate centers on the status of human embryos. Are they clusters of cells or human individuals? Most people tend to gravitate to a position between these two extremes, but the discussion is unresolved in policy and legal debates. Bok acknowledged that embryos are living and they are human — but does that make them living humans? Do they deserve moral status? She pointed out that cancer cells are also living and human, yet those qualities certainly don’t make them worth protecting. Bok said that although she is “not particularly troubled” by the embryonic destruction that’s involved with stem cell research, she said embryos demand some respect. But Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics and a professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy at Georgetown University, has another view on the status of embryos. In Mar

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