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...Embryo Research Banned...
President Clinton today rejected a controversial National Institutes of Health advisory panel's unanimous endorsement of government support ofhuman embryo research-- potentially used to correct infertility and avoid birth defects. "I do not believe that federal funds should be used to support the creation of human embryos for research purposes," Clinton said, continuing a ban first established by President Ronald Reagan. The panel's proposal came over intense opposition from groups that believe human life, for legal purposes, should begin at the moment of conception. The prominent doctors and researchers on the panel moved forward carefully, saying the work should...
Schwarzenegger is a scientist named Dr. Alex Hesse. With hustling Larry Arbogast (Danny DeVito, Schwarzenegger's Twins costar), he has developed a drug that promises to help women carry difficult pregnancies to full term. The Food and Drug Administration refuses them permission to test it, so they steal an embryo, fertilize it and implant it in Alex's abdomen. After which nature -- if that's the word we want -- takes its course. The Kevin Wade-Chris Conrad screenplay takes some humorless pains to make this science fiction plausible, and it's smart of director Ivan Reitman to be patient with...
...fossil embryo suggests the "monsters" were caring parents...
Instead of enduring drug treatments and monitoring, Robyn merely went to the Monash clinic to have immature eggs extracted. The doctors got six eggs and tried to fertilize them all, but only one developed into a viable embryo. It was implanted in Robyn's womb, and on Dec. 14, 1993, Kezia Hallam, Trounson's first bundle of success, was born...