“STEM CELL RESEARCH LEGISLATION’
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Stem cell research is conducted with both human and animal embryonic and adult stem
cells. Research with adult stem cells and non-human stem cells is relatively
non-controversial: most of the disputes center around research with hESCs (human
embryo stem cells). Because creating a stem cell line from an embryo requires
destruction of the embryo, some people object to the process on religious or
other ethical grounds, arguing that destroying an embryo is the moral
equivalent of killing a human being. This belief makes stem cell research a
controversial topic in the US (which it is not in many Western European countries,
for instance) and is the basis for the current prohibition on federal funding
to create new stem cell lines or for research using newly created lines.
