This overview of 10 years of stem cell controversy reviews the moral conflict that has made ESCs so controversial and how this conflict plays itself out in the legal realm, focusing on the constitutional status of efforts to ban ESC research or ESC-derived therapies. It provides a history of the federal funding debate from the Carter to the Obama administrations, and the importance of the Raab ...

• We explore why and how Whites deny the existence of racial privilege • We introduce belief in personal privilege as important to psychology of privilege • When given privilege evidence, Whites claim more life hardships • Whites use hardship claims to deny personally benefitting from privilege • Self-affirmed Whites acknowledge personal privilege and support equality policies a b s t r a c t a...