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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: CLINTON ACTION ON FETAL TISSUE EXPECTED TO BRING NEW TREATMENTS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.180307.7280@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: NCSU
- References: <74215@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:03:07 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <74215@cup.portal.com>
- L-Bueno@cup.portal.com (Louis Alberto Bueno) writes:
-
- > Copied without permission from:
- > New York Newsday, January 22, 1993
- >
- > CLINTON ACTION ON FETAL TISSUE EXPECTED TO BRING NEW TREATMENTS
- >
- > By Jamie Talan
- >
- > President Clinton's lifting of the ban on federal funding of fetal
- > tissue transplants should speed efforts to develop new treatments for
- > Parkinson's disease, and possibly diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and spinal
- > cord injuries, scientists said Friday.
-
- This article completely ignores the fact that the Bush administration
- did provide federal funding for fetal tissue research which used
- the remains of spontaneous abortions. The funding "ban" was on
- research which used the fetal remains from elective abortions.
-
- > Several Parkinson's researchers were racing to finish federal grant
- > proposals, due next week, that if funded would allow them to use tissue
- > from aborted fetuses to treat people with the disabling brain condition.
-
- There was nothing which could have prevented these researchers
- from using federal funding, as long as they used the remains from
- spontaneous abortions.
-
- > In 1988, before the ban was imposed, a federal advisory committee
- > recommended the use of fetal tissue in treating Parkinson's. It drew up
- > guidelines designed to prevent women from getting abortions in order to
- > provide fetal tissue for loved ones or for money. The guidelines also say
- > that doctors should not change their abortion techniques to help preserve
- > fetal tissue for research.
-
- None of these guidelines can prevent pregnant women from believing
- that they would be helping another person by aborting and donating
- the fetal remains.
-
-
- Doug Holtsinger
-
-