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...center but at the periphery. The new President repeals the former President's directive allowing funding for abortion counseling overseas. He orders a safety review of RU 486, the so-called abortion pill. He then expresses himself on perhaps the most peripheral issue of all: research that relies on fetal tissue. Bush opposes such research, and has asked the Department of Health and Human Services to study whether federal funding for it should be banned. Now, there may be good reason to pause before opening wide the doors to this kind of research--but not for the reasons being advanced...
...their desire to keep the embryo inviolable, opponents are missing the main moral issue. The real problem with research that manipulates early embryonic cells--whether derived from fetal tissue or from adult cells rejuvenated through cloning--is not the cells' origin but their destiny. What really ought to give us pause about research that harnesses the fantastic powers of primitive cells to develop into entire organs and even organisms is what monsters we will soon be capable of creating...
...broken concrete slabs. Miraculously, Bhavna survived the initial collapse. Following her faint cries, Sanghani and rescue workers clawed a hole through the rubble, wide enough to pass down a lamp and a cup of tea?but not large enough to liberate the woman. "She is trapped in a fetal position cradling her child," said rescue worker Nishant Chidda. "We believe the child is dead. Otherwise, she would've passed him out." Bhavna's chances of surviving under tons of rubble diminished with each passing hour...
XENA No, not the Warrior Princess, but still perhaps a superhero in her own right. Xena is a female piglet cloned from fetal-pig skin cells, and she may prove to be more than the latest addition to the biotech clone farm. Because of similarities between porcine and human organs, the techniques that made Xena may eventually create a supply of genetically modified pig livers that would be acceptable to the human immune system...
here. I would love to say that I stood strong against this adversity, that I needed no one. The truth is, I went straight to my parents hotel room and assumed the fetal position on their bed. The rebuilding process could only then begin...