David Prentice Quotations

I don't believe we should be destroying a member of the species for simply research purposes.

Whether you are creating a disabled embryo or whether you might potentially damage an existing embryo, you risk that problem of crossing an ethical line when you move to human experiments.

We should be able to look at the scientific facts and say this is what it is: It's a member of the species at the earliest stage of development.

That one has kind of come to a standstill.

People start to worry that something may have gone wrong, and I think the doctors involved should give the people a regular update so they can be reassured.

a person or a child is injured or killed.

You will get a lot of groups, a lot of individuals from out of state chiming in on this,

It's encouraging that scientists are even thinking about the ethical problems of embryonic stem-cell research. But I don't think these two techniques solve the ethical problems.