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Ethicist frames stem cell debate (Appleton Post Crescent)

MENASHA � An exchange between two women in a lecture hall Thursday captured the essence of the national debate over embryonic stem cell research.

“I value the existing patient more than anything else,” University of Wisconsin law professor R. Alta Charo, a world-renowned medical ethicist, told Lori Skrober, a mother of four from Hortonville. “You shake your head because you believe something else. That’s the debate we have to have.”