"In general, Republicans have equated medical research using single-celled clonal embryos with murder ..." The entire embryo controversy revolves around using embryonic beings who have many more than one cell and whom are already differentiating cells to be tasked with building the placental enclosure and the inner cell mass for building organs and tissues for life in the air world. These bastards get away with such lying because most voters/readers are clueless regarding what an embryo is and what the exploiters of embryos have in their sights. Makes me sick ... [a layman's guide to the issues and the science is linked at http://weneedtalk.blogspot.com ... it's free to anyone, in either PDF or html format, and less than 100 pages]
BTW, this newest development is precisely what was prayed for when the Presidnet approved funding for experimentation using the already established mebryonic stem cells lines but forbade funding for new lines which would require killing embryos. We debated this at FR way back then ... interesting threads.
(your link hyperlinked, per #4)
Single cell human beings are called zygotes, not embryos. But then again, what difference does it make how many cells a human being has?
Cordially,
Thank you so much, MHGinTN, for the highly informative link!