• DOI:10.1111/j.1748-720X.2010.00479.x
Corpus ID: 38108788

Embryo Stem Cell Research: Ten Years of Controversy

@article{Robertson2010EmbryoSC,
  title={Embryo Stem Cell Research: Ten Years of Controversy},
  author={J. Robertson},
  journal={The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics},
  year={2010},
  volume={38},
  pages={191 - 203}
}

J. Robertson

Published 2010

Political Science, Medicine

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

This overview of 10 years of stem cell controversy reviews the moral conflict that has made ESCs so controversial and how this conflict plays itself out in the legal realm, focusing on the constitutional status of efforts to ban ESC research or ESC-derived therapies. It provides a history of the federal funding debate from the Carter to the Obama administrations, and the importance of the Raab memo in authorizing federal funding for research with privately derived ESCs despite the Dickey-Wicker… CONTINUE READING

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