How would Barack Obama change the government’s funding policies towards embryonic stem cell research? How might he and Congressional Democrats strip all abortion restrictions such as parental notification or even permitting doctors opposed to abortion the right to refuse conducting them? How do conservatives confront the liberal argument that they are anti-science? We ask Dr Yuval Levin, former Executive Director of the President’s Council on Bioethics and author of “Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy”.