胚胎干细胞研究是为了促进医学进步和治疗一些疾病。
反对者认为，提取胚胎干细胞相当于“扼杀”生命。[{'character': '反', 'pinyin': 'fan3', 'highest pitch': 9.26, 'lowest pitch': 7.24, 'duration': 0.24, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '对', 'pinyin': 'duei4', 'highest pitch': 11.21, 'lowest pitch': 10.02, 'duration': 0.14, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '者', 'pinyin': 'zhe3', 'highest pitch': 10.14, 'lowest pitch': 6.18, 'duration': 0.17, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '认', 'pinyin': 'ren4', 'highest pitch': 7.26, 'lowest pitch': 6.09, 'duration': 0.2, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '为', 'pinyin': 'uei2', 'highest pitch': 7.48, 'lowest pitch': 5.81, 'duration': 0.29, 'prosody hierarchy': '#3'}, {'pinyin': 'sp1', 'highest pitch': 0.0, 'lowest pitch': 0.0, 'duration': 0.18}, {'character': '提', 'pinyin': 'ti2', 'highest pitch': 8.84, 'lowest pitch': 8.12, 'duration': 0.23, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '取', 'pinyin': 'qv3', 'highest pitch': 8.29, 'lowest pitch': 5.88, 'duration': 0.24, 'prosody hierarchy': '#2'}, {'character': '胚', 'pinyin': 'pei1', 'highest pitch': 8.87, 'lowest pitch': 8.44, 'duration': 0.18, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '胎', 'pinyin': 'tai1', 'highest pitch': 9.42, 'lowest pitch': 8.44, 'duration': 0.16, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '干', 'pinyin': 'gan4', 'highest pitch': 9.52, 'lowest pitch': 7.16, 'duration': 0.19, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '细', 'pinyin': 'xi4', 'highest pitch': 7.56, 'lowest pitch': 6.46, 'duration': 0.18, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '胞', 'pinyin': 'bao1', 'highest pitch': 8.87, 'lowest pitch': 7.89, 'duration': 0.25, 'prosody hierarchy': '#2'}, {'pinyin': 'sp1', 'highest pitch': 0.0, 'lowest pitch': 0.0, 'duration': 0.09}, {'character': '相', 'pinyin': 'xiang1', 'highest pitch': 8.58, 'lowest pitch': 7.2, 'duration': 0.24, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '当', 'pinyin': 'dang1', 'highest pitch': 7.87, 'lowest pitch': 7.12, 'duration': 0.17, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '于', 'pinyin': 'v2', 'highest pitch': 12.36, 'lowest pitch': 6.15, 'duration': 0.15, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '扼', 'pinyin': 'e4', 'highest pitch': 12.36, 'lowest pitch': 7.91, 'duration': 0.21, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '杀', 'pinyin': 'sha1', 'highest pitch': 9.54, 'lowest pitch': 7.91, 'duration': 0.19, 'prosody hierarchy': '#1'}, {'character': '生', 'pinyin': 'sheng1', 'highest pitch': 10.53, 'lowest pitch': 9.07, 'duration': 0.2, 'prosody hierarchy': 'null'}, {'character': '命', 'pinyin': 'ming4', 'highest pitch': 10.53, 'lowest pitch': 6.14, 'duration': 0.3, 'prosody hierarchy': '#4'}]