The desires of researchers to utilize embryonic stem cells in their research has opened an ethical debate about whether harvesting stem cells from frozen embryos is tantamount to murder or abortion since the eggs were first fertilized with the intention of implanting them and letting them mature into infants. ... (Rosenberg) The main moral dilemma of cloning lies in deciding when these embryos are considered human children, if at all. ... (NEJM) What then are the ethical considerations of using frozen embryonic stem cells for research? ...

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