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...doesn't have to be an ethicist to see the difficulties these situations could create. All parents know how hard it is to separate what they think a child ought to be from what he or she actually is. That difficulty would be compounded -- for both the parent and the child -- if an exact template for what that child could become in 10 or 20 years were before them in the form of an older sibling. "I think we have a right to our own individual genetic identity," said Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics- research organization...
When the profit motive enters into the equation, ethical considerations tend to be forgotten. And private profit drives the infertility business in the U.S. "We are one of the few countries in the world where you can sell sperm and eggs," said George Annas, a medical ethicist at Boston University. There are already catalogs that list the characteristics of sperm donors -- including one made up of Nobel prizewinners. Without regulation, it will only be a matter of time, said Annas, before some entrepreneur tries to market embryos derived from Michael Jordan or Cindy Crawford...
...from around the world was, in may ways, even more heated. "This is not research," snapped Dr. Jean-Francois Mattei of Timone Hospital in Marseilles, France. "It's aberrant, showing a lack of a sense of reality and respect for people." In Germany, Professor Hans-Bernhard Wuermeling, a medical ethicist at the University of Erlangen, was equally repelled by the notion of producing clones for spare parts, calling it "a modern form of slavery...
...death directive" that was witnessed by at least two people who did not stand to benefit from the death. Doctors would need independent confirmation that a patient had six months or less left -- a judgment that is notoriously unreliable. "It's naive to believe it can be regulated," notes ethicist Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, New York. "There's basically no way you can regulate something that takes place in private...
...tout a unique new 900-number service called Doctors by Phone, which provides professional medical advice for $3 a minute. Similar campaigns are scheduled to appear next month in Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago, among other cities. But the program has already drawn fierce criticism. Says Philip Boyle, an ethicist at the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: "There is just no substitute for the clinical encounter. They are selling something that they cannot provide...