Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Theor Med Bioeth. 2012 Feb;33(1):75-82. doi: 10.1007/s11017-011-9205-x.
Common arguments from the abortion debate have set the stage for the debate on stem cell research. Unfortunately, those arguments demonstrate flawed reasoning-jumping to unfounded conclusions, using value laden language rather than careful argument, and ignoring morally relevant aspects of the situation. The influence of flawed abortion arguments on the stem cell debate results in failures of moral reasoning and in lack of attention to important morally relevant differences between abortion and human embryonic stem cells. Among those differences are whose interests are at stake and the difference between an embryo in and out of the womb. Stem cell research differs from abortion in morally relevant ways and should be freed from the abortion debate and its flawed reasoning.
堕胎辩论中的常见论点为干细胞研究的辩论奠定了基础。不幸的是，这些论点表明推理有缺陷——草率得出毫无根据的结论，使用带有价值倾向的语言而不是仔细的论证，并且忽略了情况中与道德相关的方面。有缺陷的堕胎论点对干细胞辩论的影响导致道德推理的失败，以及对堕胎和人类胚胎干细胞之间重要的与道德相关的差异缺乏关注。这些差异包括谁的利益受到威胁以及子宫内外胚胎的区别。干细胞研究在与道德相关的方面与堕胎不同，应该从堕胎辩论及其有缺陷的推理中解放出来。
