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The decision of some ethicists will have a great impact in how to find a cure for PD and many other terrible diseases . It is hard to me to understand the logic of some human fellows : 1 . It is LEGAL to kill and be killed during wars ( men and women ) . If one can think of how many billions and billions of potential embryos are destroyed with these deaths ? But killing , or even using few embryos for research and cure is NOT LEGAL .... 2. It is LEGAL for couples to plan how many children they want to have . For that they may utilize any of the many anticonceptive methods . And what these methods are ? In some way they avoid the junction of the male and the female cells to form the embryos . In other words they let these cells to die , or be killed It is LEGAL . But using the junction of these cells , the embryos , well it is NOT LEGAL . Maybe I am looking the problem as a martian ..... :-) Cheers , Joao judith richards wrote: > Panel Urges Embryo Donation Policy > > WASHINGTON (AP) _ Women with embryos left over from infertility > treatments should be allowed to donate them to taxpayer-funded > medical research _ meaning a federal law that prohibits such > research should be changed, President Clinton's top ethics advisers > said Monday. > The National Bioethics Advisory Commission's report comes even > though the White House previously indicated it disagrees with that > recommendation. > At issue are embryonic stem cells, unique ``master cells'' that > in early embryos generate all the other tissues of the body. Stem > cells are causing huge scientific excitement, because researchers > hope the cells one day could regenerate body parts or create new > therapies for Alzheimer's and other devastating diseases. > But their use has raised troubling ethical questions, because > culling stem cells destroys the embryo. Federal law prohibits > taxpayer-funded human embryo research, and about 75 members of > Congress have opposed a move to get around that prohibition to > enable the National Institutes of Health to study the cells' > medical potential. > So Clinton ordered his ethics advisers to study how the nation > should proceed. > Citing the cells' great promise, the panel said embryos left > over from infertility treatment _ which otherwise would be thrown > away _ should be allowed to be donated to taxpayer-funded > scientists. > Privately funded researchers last year culled stem cells from > donated embryos, and multiplied the cells in a laboratory. Despite > the federal law, the NIH contends it would be legal for its > researchers to use those lab-grown supplies because government > scientists never touched the original embryos. > But the ethics panel said that relying on those supplies ``could > severely limit scientific and clinical progress'' because more > embryos may be needed. The federal ban should be changed because it > ``conflicts with several of the ethical goals of medicine ... > especially healing.'' > Embryos could not be sold, and couples could not be pressured to > donate, the panel stressed. > Clinton issued a statement thanking the ethicists for ``a > thoughtful report.'' But the White House in July said it didn't > plan to try to get the law changed, instead backing the NIH > proposal. +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ + | [log in to unmask] | +--------| Salvador-Bahia-Brazil |------+