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Article: Embryos: Drawing the Line
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 2, 1994
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THE PANEL OF 19 experts charged by the National Institutes of
Health to advise the government on human embryo research made a
conscientious effort to answer a question fraught with difficulties
both moral and scientific: Should the government fund research that
involves creating, then destroying, human embryos for research
purposes alone? But its conclusion - that, under certain strict
guidelines, the government should - is in our view flat wrong. The
creation of human embryos specifically for research that will
destroy them is unconscionable. The government has no business
funding it.
Viewed from one angle, this issue can be made to yield endless
complexities: What about the suffering ...