To live with certainty, in a world where perception defines the intangible fabric of individuality, is to assert tacitly that the non-quantifiable essence of reality is more an expression of self-evident faith than discernable truth.  Put simply, with the self-affirming virtue of non-empirical belief, I know nothing.  Yet, with the naivety of devotion to the unobservable, I presume much.  As such, myriad contexts for truth may be asserted yet what can wholly or even essentially be universally known?  And, in this ethos of ignorant indecision, stem-cell research, without definably absolutist moral implications, wavers, not in the arena of scientific protocol, but rather, in a socially constructed and imprisoning lore of non-observable mythology. And, with the moralizing rubric of faith, as a symbol of man’s ethicized hostility, Stem Cell Research and Abortion serve as metaphors for religion’s oftentimes rigidly fixed and dogmatic beliefs about “good” and “evil”.