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"The [South Korean] Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that embryos do not have the same legal status as people, setting a legal precedent allowing the use of those left over from fertility treatment for research purposes," reports Bae Ji-sook — Embryos are not human beings, rules court. "The court rejected a petition by a group of philosophers, doctors and university professors to stop the use of embryos, giving a green light to human stem cell researchers to use extracts from them."