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A CNN-USA Today-Gallup found that 60 percent of Americans approved of the president's decision.

The New York Times , the BBC, and Reuters found that Bush's decision seemed to fall right in the middle of the debate with advocates on both sides finding something to like and hate. Weblog found that to be true in its own opinion roundup of the story.

Opinion pages had ready-made fodder for a while after the decision. A few of the editorials on Bush's decision included those by: Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Orlando Sentinel, The Christian Science Monitor, San Diego Union-Tribune, USA Today, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and The Washington Post.

The stem -cell debate has re-ignited questions over the exact moment when life begins.

As part of the decision, Bush is creating a president's council of leading scientists, doctors, ethicists, lawyers, and theologians. Dr. Leon Kass, a biomedical ethicist from the University of Chicago, will lead the council.

The issue moves to Congress in September.

Not a week after the decision, Reuters reported on progress in the study of adult stem cells.

Do No Harm, the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics have valuable resources on stem cells including facts, news, and commentary.

The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity watches the stem-cell debate and recently looked at the ethics of bioethics.

For more on the stem-cell debate, see CNN's In-Depth Special and Yahoo Full Coverage.

Previous Christianity Today coverage of bioethics includes:

House of Lords Legalizes Human Embryo Cloning | Religious leaders' protests go unheeded by lawmakers. (Feb. 2, 2001)

Britain Debates Cloning of Human Embryos | Scientists want steady stream of stem cells for "therapeutic" purposes. (Nov. 22, 2000)

Tissue of Lies? | Latest stem-cell research shows no urgent need to destroy human embryos for the cause of science. (Sept. 28, 2000)

Beyond the Impasse to What? | Stem-cell research may not need human embryos after all. But why are we researching in the first place? (Aug. 18, 2000)

Thus Spoke Superman | Troubling language frames the stem-cell debate. (June 13, 2000)

New Stem-Cell Research Guidelines Criticized | NIH guidelines skirt ethical issues about embryo destruction, charge bioethicists. (Feb. 7, 2000)

Human Embryo Research Resisted (August 9, 1999)

Editorial: The Biotech Temptation (July 12, 1999)

Embryo Research Contested (May 24, 1999)

Stop Cloning Around (April 27, 1997)

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September 3 2001, Vol. 45, No. 11