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You don't understand it because there is no logic. Frozen embryos are often
not used and at times discarded. Maybe there will be a way to work it out
somehow. Nita

Joao Paulo Carvalho wrote:

> 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.
>
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