I am convinced that funding of embryonic stem cell research is both a tremendously promising approach and a moral one that can save and improve lives. I do not see how, by any stretch of the imagination, that simply discarding fertility clinic embryos rather than utilizing them to help save and improve lives is in any sense more moral than such use.
As a Korean War combat veteran, I’m very much aware from experience that questions of life and death can be difficult to reconcile with ethical and moral principles. In this case, however, in addition to the morally positive fact that it is almost certain to save and improve lives, there’s also the more personal consideration that among the lives we might save and improve through embryonic research are possibly our own.
