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Closing the Ethics Gap:
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Coordinating review of legal, ethical and scientific issues
in human embryonic stem cell research
by Patrick L. Taylor
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This article outlines key legal and ethical issues related to stem cell research by research institutions in the United States. It has three goals. One is to help identify essential directions and checkpoints for legal and ethical advice from literature, regulations and policy statements, including the recent National Academies' recommendations that research institutions establish Embryonic Stem Cell Oversight ("ESCRO") committees. Another goal is to illustrate the remarkable degree to which legal and ethical issues have failed to converge, and the extent to which neither ethical concerns nor scientists' long-term needs for research materials are reflected in legal regulation of stem cell research. The third, most important goal is to argue that institutions and their counsel must take seriously both scientists' long-term needs for ready access to research materials, and also ethicists' profound concerns about how the benefits of stem cell research should be made publicly available. For that reason, this article suggests a method for research institutions to pursue stem cell research that coordinates legal compliance with ethical review and scientists' long term needs, so that these find a deliberate place in the institutional and corporate conduct of stem cell research...
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