We cannot be certain, on a merely practical level, that it will be as successful as some people believe. To offer a green light to stem cell research is tantamount to permitting the killing of some humans in order to supply nourishment from their remains for other humans. Representative Jay Dickey of Arkansas drafted the bill that restricted federal funding in the United States for stem cell research in 1995. He remains strongly opposed to the destruction of early human life that stem cell presupposes. Nor is there any clear evidence that human-embryo research is the best way to relieve human suffering.
Ethics often lags behind science.
Science merely tells us how to do something. Ethics tells us whether that something is consistent with the best interests of everyone. As rich as science may be in ingenuity, without ethics, it remains impoverished. Ont., and a member of the American Bioethics Advisory Commission.