Verbal gymnastics on embryonic destruction

AM I alone in feeling disquiet at the rationale used by the Irish Council for Bioethics to justify their support of embryonic stem cell research?

Science tells us that the embryo is a genetically distinct, complete, unique and self-ordering human organism with all the characteristics of life.

Indeed, it is welcome that the council recognises the simple fact that the embryo “represents human life in its earliest stages”.