You DO realize that the restrictions are simply sending the best in this field overseas to do this research.
So what have you accomplished ? People will still develop it, and if sucessfull people will still use the results ... only it will have a “Made in Singapore” stamp on it.
You’ve simply outsourced it.
Since I consider the field to be nothing but a fraud, anyway, I'm not sure why I should regard that as a bad thing.
Adult stem cells have so many clear advantages, and have so much unexplored potential, that embryonic stem cell research would be illogical even if it could be conducted in a fashion free of moral issues. Unless enough stem cells can be obtained in practical and acceptable fashion to implement any treatments that may be discovered, such discoveries can have no practical and acceptable use. IMHO, the purpose of ESCR is not to provide useful treatments for people, but rather to use the promise of such treatments as justification for dropping moral boundaries.