[BonnieJ]

Isn't this why Dana Reeve suddenly appeared on the Sunday morning shows today? She and Nancy Reagan from the other side of the spectrum both crusade for that cause, and possibly neither fully understand it or the alternatives. Well, beyond professionals involved in the research...who really does?

[SuziQ]

Isn't this why Dana Reeve suddenly appeared on the Sunday morning shows today?

Is she advocating embryonic stem cell research? That would be most ironic, because it is the use of ADULT stem cells that has shown any success in the body's repair of spinal cord injuries.

[MHGinTN]

Actually, it's not all that difficult to understand what the issue is about. Here's a link to a free manuscript which explains the science in a layperson's language (as best I could do it). The issue centers upon the reality of the human embryonic organism ... not a mere clump of cells, an entire human organism at his or her earliest age in their lifetime. If one believes it's okay to kill them for their body parts, ESCR is a holy grail; if one believes, as science defines them, that embryo is an age in a lifetime already begun at conception, then the killing and harvesting of the body parts is cannibalism.