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...they also want to take better care of patients. Prying more money out of HMOs for treatment is one way. Another is to insist that HMO contracts let doctors make all the decisions on treatment rather than allowing "M.B.A.s phoning from the back of their limos to cancel bone-marrow transplants for breast-cancer patients," as one medical researcher puts...
...Those fortunate enough to survive a BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANT may face another problem later: an extremely high risk of developing a new tumor in the brain, liver or elsewhere. These tumors may be caused by the treatments with high doses of radiation that transplant patients require...
...always, it's a varied one. Over here are the Midwestern parents who have flown in specially to see if the lab can make them an exact copy of their six-year-old daughter, recently found to be suffering from leukemia so aggressive that only a bone-marrow transplant can save her. The problem is finding a compatible donor. If, by reproductive happenstance, the girl had been born an identical twin, her matching sister could have produced all the marrow she needed. But nature didn't provide her with a twin, and now the cloning lab will try. In nine...
...that would amount to creating the clone just to kill it. But it's hard to argue against the idea of a family's loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing this are not easy to argue," says John Fletcher, former ethicist...
...cloning question--giving an ethical O.K. to one hypothetical and a thumbs-down to another--you begin making the sort of ad hoc hash of things the Supreme Court does when it tries to define pornography. Suppose you could show that the baby who was created to provide marrow for her sister would forever be treated like a second-class sibling--well cared for, perhaps, but not well loved. Do you prohibit the family from cloning the first daughter, accepting the fact that you may be condemning her to die? Richard McCormick, a Jesuit priest and professor of Christian ethics...