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i thought that mk's comment about the fertility clinics

"Even surplus embryos already in the freezer at fertility clinics -
where embryos are routinely created and destroyed by the thousands every
year - could not be used for medical research and would have to be
thrown out instead."

reminded me of something ...

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2001/04/16 Re: NEWS: NIH Cancels Stem Cell Meeting

    hi all

    murray wrote, in part:
    > the Christian Medical Association filed a suit
    > against HHS and NIH in order to halt funding of stem cell research
    > that uses discarded embryos, calling the guidelines, issued in
    > August 2000, "arbitrary and capricious" because they
    > "fundamentally undermine long-established state laws and ethical
    > norms that protect human life from medical experimentation...."

    i wonder what the CMA's position is on the discarding of the
"unused' embryos
    (which has been a standard procedure for fertility clinics)

    i wonder what the CMA's position is on fertility clinics, period.

    i find the phrase "protect human life from medical experimentation'
    too vague for discussion of this specific topic:
    every time i take levodopa or selegiline or aspirin or ...? ...
    i am subjecting myself to "medical experimentation"
    since the precise working (causes and effects) of these meds
    is still not fully known

    i also wonder if the terms "arbitrary and capricious"
    might be more appropriate in describing the actions of the CMA
    in re stem cell research

    janet


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