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Could it not be said though, that as humans discover science as a pre-existing entity (i.e. Kant's A Priori), they also discover morality and the rights and wrongs of society as a pre-existing entity as well? Because we have not yet uncovered empirical evidence of the rightness or wrongness of fetal stem-cell research, is there not already an answer waiting to be discovered. The ignorance of humans is part of moral relativism (subjectivism), because perhaps they do not yet know for sure what is right or wrong. This is not meant to allude to any religious, transcendental truth, for that is a man-made system of morality as well. Rather, could the shared experience of all people be the only basis for these conjectures. Knowing what we know does not imply that we will not learn further. We simply have yet to understand the true ethics of murder, rape, etc.
As far as the Constitution is concerned, the matter of murder is not necessarily concerned with morality, it was simply a law created to preserve the greatest interests of the greatest number of people.
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