[Professor S]

It comes down to politics. Those that are against abortion cannot openly support stem cell research because it would be seen as a backdoor support of abortion through supporting research that uses aborted babies.

The pragmatist can see that the aborted phetus's are going to waste and could be used to better humanity regardless of one's moral stance on the argument, but the politician cannot be seen as being weak on such a hot button issue. So we have a stalemate.

Another reason why I am not a republican. (I really need to start a new poltical party called the "Pragmaticans")