The Northern Ireland Conservative Party has previously expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".
Opponents say they will politicise justice, create jurisdictional conflicts and uncertainty for the police, and legitimise mob justice in the form of lynchings and stonings, which have become more common over the past two years.
"Stem-cell research is in a very early state and while it may hold great promise we should not overstate the state of science, or politicise these issues, " he wrote in a recent edition of Nature magazine.
Others, such as the Northern Ireland Conservative Party, have expressed concern that putting a union flag 356 days a year on the Belfast war memorial could "diminish the flag and debase and politicise a place of remembrance".