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...already banned human cloning, and soon Texas may become the fifth. Republican state senator Jane Nelson has introduced a bill in Austin that would impose a fine of as much as $1 million for researchers who use cloning technology to initiate pregnancy in humans. The proposed Texas law would permit embryonic-stem-cell research, but bills proposed in other states were so broadly written that they could have stopped those activities...
...case hinges on whether use of a thermal imaging device to divine what goes on inside a house constitutes a search, and thus should itself have required a warrant showing probable cause. As his lawyer, Kenneth Lerner, put it in his brief, "Since we don't permit police to break into people's homes, should we permit them to use technology to accomplish the same thing? The public justifiably expects that the walls of our homes sanctify a zone of privacy against the government, and represent physical barriers that assure our privacy," Lerner wrote in his brief...
...banned human cloning, and this spring Texas may become the fifth. Republican state senator Jane Nelson has introduced a bill in Austin that would impose a fine of as much as $1 million for researchers who use cloning technology to initiate pregnancy in humans. The proposed Texas law would permit embryonic-stem-cell research, but bills proposed in other states were so broadly written that they could have stopped those activities...
...says she found the Angel Heart adoption agency, run by Tina Johnson in San Diego, through the Yellow Pages. As a so-called adoption facilitator, Johnson makes money by matching parents who crave a child with mothers who can provide one. States regulate adoption differently, but 47 of them permit "private" adoptions, in which intermediaries, often specialist lawyers, put children needing homes together with prospective parents, who must still undergo a thorough government investigation...
...couple signed a "placement agreement" with Wecker and filed it with the state to start the six-month check of the Allens' suitability. None of the Allens' $6,000 was supposed to go to Wecker as a direct payment, since baby selling is illegal. But the law does permit reimbursement for expenses, like medical costs for childbirth and airfares. Wecker says she didn't get any money beyond expenses. Johnson, now being pursued by the FBI for possible fraud, isn't talking...