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...have the same moral status as infants and children," and that scientists should be allowed to conduct federally funded experiments on them -- albeit with strict controls. One of these, the panel recommends, is to limit research to embryos that are no older than 14 days, the time when a fetus begins to develop a nervous system. The NIH is expected to make a final decision this December. Today's announcement was nothing less than testing the murky waters of public opinion on this kind of research, said TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. "The NIH will be watching the November congressional...
...malignant cells and infections. But if too much TNF is produced, as apparently happens in leprosy, AIDS and tuberculosis, the body makes itself sicker. The second process stymied by thalidomide is the creation of new blood vessels, which is crucial to the development of arms and legs in the fetus. The eventual goal of researchers is to alter thalidomide somehow so that it continues to inhibit TNF without harming nascent arteries and veins...
...satanic rituals was introduced by an investigator and enthusiastically agreed to by the sisters, who had recently seen a Geraldo Rivera TV show on the subject. One sister said that over several years she had been forced to witness the ritual murders of 25 people and that an aborted fetus from her own pregnancy had been ritually dismembered...
...indeed a triumph for the advocates of abortion if they have managed to convince Bosco that "there is no empirical way to resolve the dilemma of the fetus." There is no lack of evidence that a fetus is alive. How do we determine that anything is alive? Does it have a heartbeat? Does it require nourishment? Does it grow? Frankly, there is no biological evidence that a fetus in NOT alive...
This evidence--that a fetus is a human life--is the reason that pro-lifers cannot abandon the abortion debate. I have been interested of late to hear advocates of abortion calling for us to go "beyond abortion." It is unfortunate that by this they mean that we should all accept the fact of abortion, stop talking about it and move to other issues...