Note on Sources

Stem cell research will lead to new therapies.

Mike May, "Mother Nature's Menders," in Understanding Cloning, ed. Scientific American, (New York: Warner Books, 2002), 69.

National Research Council, Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine, (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002), 1.

Stem cell research may not lead to new therapies.

Kristian Mineau quoted in "Urge Legislators to Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research," a Massachusetts Family Institute Press Release (Newton Upper Falls, M.A., 16 February 2005 [cited 22 March 2005]); available from www.mafamily.org; INTERNET.

Existing stem cell lines are of limited use.

David Scadden, interview by NOVA producer Julia Cort, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 19 April 2005.

National Research Council, Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine, (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002), 3.

George Daley, interview by NOVA producer Deborah Amos, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 19 April 2005.

Kevin Eggan, interview by NOVA producer Kyla Dunn, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 19 April 2005.

Embryonic stem cell lines exist already.

President George W. Bush, "Remarks by the President on Stem Cell Research," (9 August 2001); available from www.whitehouse.gov; INTERNET.

Adult stem cells aren't an equal alternative.

David Scadden, interview by NOVA producer Julia Cort, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 19 April 2005.

Adult stem cells offer an alternative.

Charles Krauthammer, statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 323.

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells don't end the debate.

International Society for Stem Cell Research, ISSCR Statement on New Advances in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research (20 November 2007); available from isscr.org/press_releases/ips_statement.html; INTERNET.

Rudolph Jaenisch, interview by Dean Irwin, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 23 July 2008.

George Daley, interview by Dean Irwin, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 23 July 2008.

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells should end the debate.

Leon Kass, "Defending Life and Dignity: How, finally, to ban human cloning," in The Weekly Standard, Volume 013, Issue 23, 25 February 2008.

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 171.

Cloning cells is different than cloning humans.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, "Un-Cloning Vote Scheduled for February 18, 2005!" JDRF Washington Report vol. 8, no. 4 (17 February 2005); available from www.jdrf.org; INTERNET.

Michael Gazzaniga, statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 292.

Brigid Hogan, "Advances in Stem Cell Research," (Chevy Chase, M.D.: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2000); available from www.hhmi.org; INTERNET.

Cloning cells opens the door to cloning humans.

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 51.

Charles Krauthammer, "Crossing Lines," The New Republic (29 April 2002): 20-23.

We have a moral imperative to relieve suffering.

David Scadden, interview by NOVA producer Julia Cort, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA: Public Broadcasting System, 19 April 2005.

Michael Sandel, statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 344.

Michael Sandel, statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 345.

We have a moral imperative to protect the sanctity of life.

President George W. Bush, "President Bush Calls on Senate to Back Human Cloning Ban," (10 April 2002); available from www.whitehouse.gov; INTERNET.

William Hurlbut, statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 316.

Charles Krauthammer, statement in Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), 327.

Human Cloning and Human Dignity: The Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, with a foreword by Leon Kass (New York: PublicAffairs, 2002), LVI.

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