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Drill Babies, Drill

If harvesting embryos is OK, how about fetuses?

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From this uncertainty, Caplan concluded that "embryonic stem cell research ought to be generously funded and aggressively pursued."

Why isn't the same true of research on fetuses?

(Now playing at the Human Nature blog: 1. In praise of female condoms. 2. More on Obama and stem cells. 3. Bad news about smokeless tobacco.)

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