Slowly and quietly, the momentum of the public debate over human embryo research may be shifting. For the past four years, opponents of research involving the destruction of human embryos have been stuck in a political rut. They argued ad nauseam against the destruction of nascent human life for scientific research, and for a ban on all human cloning — both the creation and destruction of cloned embryos for research, and the manufacture of cloned human children. But public opinion seemed to slip away from them, as research proponents clouded important ethical issues and promised “cures now” for many dreaded … Continue reading The Embryo Wars