Susan Armacost and Ed Fallone are passionate about the morality of human embryonic stem cell research. They are also worlds apart.
Armacost, legislative director of Wisconsin Right to Life, says the destruction of embryos necessary to obtain the cells is murder. Her organization has added embryonic stem cell research to its traditional issues of abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Fallone, president of Wisconsin Stem Cell Now Inc., says it’s wrong to put limits on research that many believe has the potential to cure diseases, including the juvenile diabetes that afflicts him, his father and his son. He formed his group to advocate for stem cell research in the state after President Bush was re-elected.