... bone marrow transplants that ultimately failed. I know that this family would have gone anywhere, spent their last dollar and tried whatever new treatment that became available. And for them the technology of stem cell therapy was just too new and not applicable yet, to Rebecca's condition. But when the argument for stem cell research is taken out of the emotional climate of a family with a sick child, or parent, and looked at in the larger context of things, decisions become more difficult to make. The basic question of whether or not its right to use stem cells from human embryos in scientific research is heavy with controversy. On one hand, in the June1, 2001 issue of "Science", Louis M. Guenin, who teaches ethics at Harvard Medical School, says that "for some embryonic stem cells, it is not only justifiable, but admirable." The stem cells he is referring to are those that ...

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