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...former drug dealer, Danny is the prime suspect in the murder of Lauren's lover, Dr. Tohlson, who has found a way to use fetal tissue to preserve youth. To prove his innocence, Danny embarks on a journey through the culture of Southern California, where fast sex, fast cars (with cellular phones) and fast money pass for the Trinity. He meets the Uber-twins, Boyd and Lloyd, Tohlson's guinea pigs, as stupid as they are strong. There is also Cubanito, a drug dealer who hates the sloppiness of killing and reads FORTUNE so that he can diversify...
...step on the path to treating offspring as objects. What if tests show that a baby conceived to be a donor is not medically useful? Parents might be tempted to have an abortion and try again. Babies might be used before birth. For example, transplants of fetal tissue may one day help victims of Parkinson's disease or juvenile diabetes. Will babies be conceived, then aborted to provide fetal tissue? "Children aren't medicine for other people," declares George Annas, a professor at Boston University's medical school. "Children are themselves...
...consciousness after that accident, and doctors say she never will. Now 32, she lies in a condition known as a persistent vegetative state, awake but totally unaware, at the Missouri Rehabilitation Center at Mount Vernon. Her body is stiff and severely contracted, her knees and arms drawn into a fetal position, her fingers dug into her wrists. Some nurses report that Cruzan can turn toward persons who speak to her and that she has cried on several occasions, once when a valentine card was read to her. But doctors say she is oblivious to the environment except for reflexive responses...
...Administration's hostility to in-vitro research is more puzzling than its opposition to experiments with fetal tissue. The goal of the technique is to assist infertile couples who want children, an objective that seems to square with the President's pro-family views. Opponents argue that since human life begins at conception, the accidental but inevitable destruction of some embryos during in-vitro fertilization is murder. The irony is that in their zealous defense of the lives of "unborn children," the foes of in-vitro fertilization are preventing other children from ever being born...
Sullivan vehemently insists that contrary to reports, it was he, not Mason, who made the decision last month to continue a federal ban on research in fetal-cell transplants, overruling the recommendation of an NIH committee that the research be continued. But there is no question that a decision to go forward with the research, which holds promise for finding new treatments for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and diabetes, would have provoked a fierce test of wills between Sullivan and Administration pro-lifers, who oppose the use of fetal tissue in medical research...