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Article: The Human Condition.
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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It's only a small, indeed microscopic, matter, but it made the news. It seems the Bush administration has changed the federal regulations governing scientific research in order to classify human embryos as human.
Goodness, has somebody in Washington been reading a biology textbook? What did they think the human embryo was before -- feline? equine? crustacean? Or just a meaningless clump of cells in a petri dish?
This new addition to the list of "human subjects" whose welfare must be considered in scientific experiments -- along with fetus, child and adult -- is not expected to have any dramatic effect on society's ethics. American society in 2002 being ...