Letter of Transmittal to 
The President of the United States 
The President’s Council on Bioethics 
1801 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Suite 700 
Washington, D.C. 20006 
January 14, 2004 
The President 
The White House 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Mr. President: 
I am pleased to present to you Monitoring Stem Cell 
Research, a report of the President’s Council on Bioethics. Over 
the past two years, in keeping with your stated intention, the 
Council has been monitoring developments in stem cell 
research, as it proceeds under the implementation of the 
administration’s policy. We have consulted widely, heard 
presentations, and commissioned review essays (included as 
appendices in this volume) on all aspects of the topic — 
scientific, ethical, and legal. Our desire has been both to 
understand what is going on in the laboratory and to consider 
for ourselves the various arguments made in the ongoing 
debates about the ethics of stem cell research and the wisdom 
of the current policy. Although both the policy and the 
research are still in their infancy, the Council is now ready to 
give you and the American people an update on this important 
area of research. 
PRE -PUBLICATION VERSION 
