The Program on Science and Ethics seeks to address urgent questions pertaining to the treatment of human beings at every stage of development and in all conditions. Its special focus is on questions of what is owed, as a matter of justice, to those in the earliest stages of life and those in the weakest and most vulnerable conditions. The Program seeks to identify sound principles of justice and human rights to govern the development and use of biotechnologies. It also seeks to identify standards by which to evaluate proposals for enhancing human beings by interventions designed to make them smarter, stronger, more beautiful, or better in other ways. Subjects of the Program's study include embryo-destructive research, alternative sources of pluripotent stem cells, genetic enhancement, embryo adoption, abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, and the formation of human chimeras.


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The Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science