[Bungleau]

I confess to reading, and to researching my response. This isn't the first time I've thought through stem cell research, and I'm sure it won't be the last. I learned a few more things this time, and I expect I'll repeat that process time and again.

As for the thought that "if we don't do it, someone else will"... well, I admit that certainly appears to be true. I read an article today about the Chinese investing a ton of money in DNA sequencers that will enable them to establish a serious genetic research industry.

But the fact that someone else will do it first isn't justification to do something... logically extending from that, everyone you know is going to die, so might as well make them die first. The "It was going to happen anyway" defense is pretty weak.