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...situation is about to change. The Ethics Advisory Board of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has just given IVF a moral go-ahead and urged HEW to lift the ban. While doing so, it nevertheless recommended research limitations that may influence future policy with regard to such matters as selective human breeding...
...board's decision was reached only after hearings in eleven cities, where testimony was taken on the moral issues from 197 witnesses-ordinary citizens as well as noted scientists and clergymen. The most negative expert, Protestant Moral Theologian Paul Ramsey, saw an "irremovable possibility" that physical or psychological damage might be inflicted on IVF children. A number of scientists, though not against IVF, felt that more research with nonhuman embryos was necessary. So far only a handful of IVF studies has been done with higher primates...
Partly with such objections in mind, the board recommended that as in-vitro research proceeds, the public must be informed of any evidence that IVF produces a higher rate of abnormal children than natural reproduction. It also proposed three other significant safeguards...
...recommendations before they have the force of law. Bishop Thomas Kelly, general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, has urged Califano to continue the ban because there is already "public repugnance" over tax funding of abortions. Whatever Califano decides, Father McCormick predicts that his board's report is "going to be controversial, not only in the Catholic community but in every other...
Under Cambridge's rent control law, landlords seeking rent increases must have them approved by the city's rent control board, which usually relies on a formula based on upward adjustments of 1967 rents...