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- From: dsh@eceyv.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
- Subject: Re: CLINTON DISMANTLES BUSH AND REAGAN RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.182126.8180@ncsu.edu>
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: NCSU
- References: <74214@cup.portal.com>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:21:26 GMT
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- In article <74214@cup.portal.com>
- L-Bueno@cup.portal.com (Louis Alberto Bueno) writes:
-
- > Copied without permission from:
- > The Los Angeles Times, January 22, 1993
- >
- > CLINTON DISMANTLES BUSH AND REAGAN RESTRICTIONS ON ABORTION
- >
- > By Karen Tumulty and Marlene Cimons
- >
- > By executive order, Clinton:
- >
- > - Ended a five-year ban on fetal tissue research, which scientists
- > believe holds the possibility of benefiting patients with Parkinson's
- > disease, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, Huntington's disease, spinal cord
- > injuries and other conditions.
-
- This is an incorrect characterization of the Bush administration's
- policy on fetal tissue research. There was no ban on fetal
- tissue research as the paper suggests. Rather, the Bush
- administration prohibited the federal *funding* of fetal tissue
- research which used the remains from *elective* abortions.
- Researchers could obtain federal funding for research which
- used the fetal remains from *spontaneous* abortions.
-
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- Doug Holtsinger
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