Religion has a major part in Stem cell research also. We can give an example of Dolly the cloned sheep. We know she was a clone created by the stem cell process. He lived like no other sheep but in the end there was a problem when she had gotten a disease which only older sheep had, so it seemed like her aging process was faster therefore the experiment was not really as successful as it seemed and religiously a lot of people had things to say about stem cell research by the process of cloning:

            Roman Catholicism believe that the soul enters the body when sperm and eggs unite. They say it is against Gods will to live as just mere human experiments. They even go as far as saying that cloned embryos have no soul, since in there view it was born outside of gods will parameters.

            Orthodox Christians believe that there should be a process of love envolved between two people not just a manipulation of cells that just create self-love.

            Pope John Paul himself even said that creating human embroys, are not morally exceptiable, even when their proposed goal is good in itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_cloning

            Zoloth based her ideas and thoughts on jewish soureces and argued that stem cell research in itself  would make human life too easy to commodify by putting the emphasis more on acheving a copy of the self than on the crucial parental act of creating "a stranger to whom you would give your life.”

            She also took a greater step in saying that where the foster children cannot even find homes for themselves and where the universal health care is not responsible for that babies that already come to this life form.

            Another thing she did was cite that in Jewish tradition that embryos do not have the same status as a human can. She says that there is a commandment to heal and great latitude is permitted for the learning process. In the end she says that the world is incomplete with humans and there participation to become a whole.

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/cloning.html            

            Professor Lisa Sowle Cahill of Boston College has her own ways to describe the issue of stem cell research and religion. She says that she thinks it’s more a philosophically reason why the whole embryo idea is a person then even a strict religious one. And she concludes by saying that even the church itself say it doesn’t know for sure philosophically, but in the end the embryo should still get the benefit of the doubt and just be protective of it.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week448/perspectives.html