"Democratic political systems are just beginning to grapple with the challenges posed by bioscience and technology in the age of the biorenaissance. Embryonic stem cell research will not neatly cleave political points of view into the two camps we have come to know in America from a century and a half of Democratic and Republican politics.
As matters of conscience and judgments about moral and ethical issues find their way into American politics, they have the potential to shatter traditional constituencies and alignments, creating long-term red state versus blue state conflicts as well as conflicts within red and blue states."