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Madam, – Senator David Norris is reported (“Absence of rules on stem-cell research misleading”, April 17th) as having said that the embryos used to produce human stem cells had the potential to become human but were not human. He went on to say: “Nobody takes an embryo to the zoo or the cinema or the church. Let’s get real about this.”