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...capture an embryonic stem cell, scientists must find an embryo, or blastocyst (from umbilical cord tissue, a frozen sample from a fertility clinic, an aborted fetus, or, most controversially, from a cloned specimen) ideally a few days after fertilization. Researchers then extract stem cells from the blastocyst, and, they hope, use those blank slates to create new, potentially curative, cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Stem Cell Decision: A No-Win Situation? | 8/9/2001 | See Source »

...some people oppose stem-cell research because they believe human life begins at conception. But you don't have to believe that to be apprehensive that stem-cell research may legitimize the mechanization of life, the making of the human fetus into the ultimate guinea pig. People are horrified when a virgin hill is strip-mined for coal; how can they be unmoved when a human embryo is created solely to be strip-mined for its parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mounting the Slippery Slope | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

What next? Today a blastocyst is created for harvesting. Tomorrow, researchers may find that a five-month-old fetus with a discernible human appearance, suspended in an artificial placenta, may be the source of even more promising body parts. At what point do we draw the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mounting the Slippery Slope | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...France's highest court of appeal, the Cour de Cessation, has reproduced the self-cancelling black box as law. It has ruled that disabled children are entitled to be compensated if their mothers were not given a chance to abort the defective fetus. It has decided in favor of the families of three children-one with a malformed spine, two born with only one arm-whose lawyers argued that if doctors had detected the fetuses' disabilities, they would have had the pregnancies terminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Suing If Your Parents Were Not Given the Chance to Abort You | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...sonogram, will advise: Abort. Perfect children are mandated by law. Parents will be considered irresponsible if they bring forth a specimen less than perfect. Think of the charming effect this decision would have if it were applied in those many countries around the world where a fetus that turns up with a vagina rather than a penis is considered to be defective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Suing If Your Parents Were Not Given the Chance to Abort You | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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