But it is precisely this reasoning that is threatened by what Hwang and his team claimed to have achieved. If it is the uniqueness of human embryos that makes it wrong to destroy them, then there is no compelling reason not to take one cell from an embryo and destroy the remainder of it to obtain stem cells, for the embryo’s “unique genetic potential” would be preserved.
但是，黄禹锡及其小组宣称实现的东西恰恰威胁到这一推理。如果是由于人类胚胎独一无二的特性而使得摧毁它们是错误的话，那么，就没有什么迫切的理由不从胚胎中提取一个细胞并摧毁剩余的胚胎而获得干细胞，因为胚胎的“独一无二的基因潜力”将会得到保持。