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...this posting, Davidson said he had also received messages from those who felt that lying was a good idea in this case as long as the donor knows his HIV status. Davidson then asked others on the list to send their opinions...
...Gore is a wonderful human being, but he should not run again," says the state chairman of a crucial Democratic donor state. "Donors tell me they dread the call from his people, and I tell them to be candid. This is a message he's going to hear from a number of people." Top Democratic strategists and fund raisers blame Gore's loss not on the Florida recount or the Supreme Court but on Gore himself--his lame performance, inept campaign and stubborn mishandling of Bill Clinton. Indeed, party leaders on both coasts say Gore must patch his rocky relations...
Helen Beasley says she did not set out to become a surrogate mother. The 26-year-old legal secretary from Shrewsbury, England, a single mom with a nine-year-old son, was thinking more about becoming a paid egg donor. When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20,000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. "The more I thought about it," she says, "the more I thought...
...media, made it clear in their discussions that they wanted just one child. What's more, notes Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode, "theirs was a very extensive contract. There were 50 clauses providing for every contingency," including the case of a multiple pregnancy, a real possibility given that three donor eggs fertilized by Wheeler's sperm were implanted in Beasley's womb. The contract required Beasley to honor the couple's decision about whether to have a selective reduction, the termination of one or more fetuses in a multiple pregnancy. Still, Beasley says, "I didn't realize they would...
...provide a temporary structure that cells can colonize and upon which they can eventually grow into a functioning organ--at which point the scaffold dissolves away. Langer foresees the day when scientists will be able to grow a new liver or pancreas for patients waiting for scarce donor organs. Skin grown using Langer's principles has been approved by the FDA, and cartilage for rib cages is in clinical trials...