Who should decide whether embryonic stem cells may be used for medical research?

Doctors and researchers themselves.
The federal government.
The state governments.
The genetic sources of the embryos.
Nobody. It's too dangerous and must be prohibited.
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    6/24/2005 5:34:18 PM

    I like this topic and think if covers all the principles.  People who abhor stem cell research can take the position they believe, and others can try to isolate some compromise that makes sense to them.  Focusing on the "who decides" rather than the "what decision" may annoy some people though, who want to say that it is all good (they'd have to accept "doctors and researchers" themselves, but wouldn't be able to say that doctors/researchers should do it...)...Anyway, this is a "procedural" approach to asking the same substantive question, and works for me.