Still more on the stem-cell news

Here's an essay in the upcoming Weekly Standard, by Ryan Anderson, on the stem-cell breakthrough. 

This really is huge news.  And, it raises some (to some, I expect) uncomfortable questions about those who will continue to insist that we not only need to do embryo-destroying research, but also that the government should subsidize it.  If an entirely unobjectionable, simpler, and cheaper procedure is available, are there really any good reasons -- if so, what are they? -- to insist on the embryo-destroying and clone-and-kill procedures other than (a) "sticking it to the religious right"; (b) getting us used to, and less bothered by, destroying embryos for research purposes, in order to hold off any slippage in support for the abortion license; (c) utter contempt for the moral objections to the embryo-destroying procedures, coupled with a "science knows no bounds" ideology; and (d) public money?