Democrats, Republicans Spar Over Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

FOXNews.com - Democrats, Republicans Spar Over Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Senate Democrats argued a moral imperative to allow federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, in a hearing Thursday that comes a week after an appeals court temporarily lifted a judge's ban on federal funding of it. But Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker said the research using fetal tissue for stem cell research raises "profound moral and ethical challenges."