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Well it likely wouldn't have changed anything on stem cell research. Induced stem cells are a thing and despite plenty of research we're still quite far away from really being able to grow them into whatever we want.
And yet research was blocked for quite a few years for religious reasons. You may be comfortable with where we are now but what if we were ten years ahead of that
And from what I understand, the methods had to work around the ban. We'd still prefer to use the more straightforward methods if there was federal funding for it.
Me being comfortable with the state of research and the fact that having more cell lines would've likely done nothing for our current understanding are two different things. The frank truth is, we're far from even understanding how epigenetics factor in differentiation between induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic ones and which one is better for getting the results you want. The expense of the medium to grow the cells and the fact that it takes a month to see results of what you're doing, the economics, is far more impactful on why we haven't seen progress than the availability of cell lines.