Reprogramming Potentiality: The Co-Production of Stem Cell Policy and Democracy.

The authors discuss the article "The argument from potentiality in the embryo protection debate: Finally 'depotentialized'?" by M. S. Stier and B. Schoene-Seifert from the volume 13 number 1, 2013 issue, with particular focus on the ethics and regulation of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. They argue that scientific evidence on cellular reprogramming necessitates changes to hESC research policies based on the potentiality argument (PA) of the moral status of embryos.