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...Institutes of Health's new guidelines on human stem-cell research contained two errors [HEALTH, Sept. 4]. Under the guidelines, government-funded scientists will not be allowed to use early-stage embryos. They will be able to use material provided by private companies derived from embryos left over from in-vitro fertilizations. Also, contrary to what we said, there is no ban on using federal funds for fetal-tissue research...
Under new guidelines issued last week by the National Institutes of Health, government-funded scientists will be allowed to use early-stage embryos left over from in-vitro fertilizations in their attempts to understand and control how stem cells turn into specific kinds of tissues--so long as they are harvested by private firms. With government money finally behind it, says pioneering stem-cell researcher John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, "the work will move forward rapidly...
Several developments have helped boost the popularity of single motherhood. With better-paying jobs and greater career opportunities, more women can afford it. Advances in the technology of conception, such as in-vitro fertilization, have made it much more feasible, even in the later childbearing years. Meanwhile, adoption by single mothers has become a more accepted option...
...FATHERS Between in-vitro fertilization and cloning, dads could become dinosaurs. Moms, too, with the possibility looming of an artificial womb. Did somebody say George Orwell...
...share this interest in infertile, social sex with a few other species: dolphins, bonobo apes and some birds. But even if sex is too good for human beings to give up, more and more people will abandon it as a means of reproduction. Many people born from in-vitro techniques are themselves infertile--they inherit the infertility from their genetic parents. So infertility is bound to increase, and with it the demand for IVF. Add to this the demand from gay men and women and from those with private eugenic motives--ranging from not wanting to pass on inherited disease...