President George W. Bush’s August 9, 2001, address to the nation on embryonic stem cells was an exercise in politico-moral bumper bowling. He acknowledged the hopes of desperate patients and their families, then bounced across the alley to embrace the moral arguments of right-to-life allies. It was fascinating to watch this slow, lurching journey down […]
Thomas Murray
Thomas H. Murray is the president of the Hastings Center and a member of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, the author of The Worth of a Child, and an editor of The Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal, and Policy Issues in Biotechnology.