WASHINGTON, December 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The question, "when is an embryo a human being?" continues to dog a bioethics community in search of a way to allow embryonic stem cell research without guilt. Now, a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, seeking to free up federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, has proposed a new compromise. Dr. William Hurlbut has proposed the creation of a new kind of genetically engineered "organismic entity" that would produce human embryonic stem cells, but which would not qualify, he says, as a human embryo. Hurlbut, a member of the President's Council...