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Tough Sell: Illinois lawmakers will have to wrestle with issues of life and death

In his first term President George W. Bush posed an ethical question that remains unanswered today: Does stem cell research destroy or improve life?"At…
Cons and Cults: Should politicians or scientists guide the debate over stem-cell research?

Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Bioethicist Arthur Caplan likens legislating stem-cell research to setting foreign policy according to the script of a Steven Segall movie. His theory is…