Debating life

God and the Embryo

Religious Voices on Stem Cells and Cloning

Brent Waters and Ronald Cole-Turner,

editors

Georgetown Univ. Press. 228p $26.95

ISBN 087840998X

Although Gene Outka's "The Ethics of Human Stem Cell Research" first appeared in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, it serves as the centerpiece for the valuable collection God and the Embryo. While size alone might indicate its strategic place (it is at least two-thirds longer than the other entries), Outka's article also raises the central issue at stake in the embryonic stem cell debate and investigates the evidence mustered to support opposing positions. ...