John Fletcher John Fletcher John Fletcher is an Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. A Founding Fellow of The Hastings Center, Dr. Fletcher has given congressional testimony on bioethics issues on numerous occasions and has published extensively on the subject.
Most conservatives view the use and destruction of human embryos in research as killing.
Many liberals, however, support this research. Revising our current laws to allow federal funding of stem cell research requires conservatives to sacrifice a moral principal. Meanwhile, liberals will be required to sacrifice nothing. Right now, any legislation to change the law on funding for stem cell research will not be bipartisan, and thus will not pass. We should find out more before proceeding.