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...task force ultimately came to a consensus to prohibit paying women who donate eggs, but allow reimbursement for travel or other directly related expenses such as lost wages. (Incidentally, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which last month became the first U.S. academic facility to begin recruiting women to donate eggs for stem cell studies, adopted the same restriction; they will not pay women for donating, but will compensate them for travel and other expenses related to their participation.) The task force released a draft of its proposed guidelines to its 2300 membership in a town hall forum at the Society...
...1600s and became industrialized in the 19th century, had already sent many species into serious decline. Environmental groups, fearing that the whales would become extinct, lobbied hard to bring the hunting and killing to a halt. In 1986 they came very close: the International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted to prohibit whaling, allowing it only for scientific purposes or, in a handful of cases, such as among native peoples in Alaska and Greenland, to preserve ancient food-gathering practices...
...eggs from in vitro fertilization clinics. They added that they are in the process of taking the necessary regulatory steps so that they can begin to harvest fresh eggs from donors on a strictly voluntary basis.The research is complicated further by government regulations in place since 2001 that prohibit the use of federal funds for human embryonic stem cell research that uses new cell lines.To ensure compliance, Hyman said, the HSCI has a set of “very detailed business and accounting processes to ensure that no federal funds are used for this research.” The rules...
...potential healthcare costs justify controlling citizens’ actions, there are no limits to government regulation; from sky diving to swimming in pools more than four-feet deep, we regularly engage in risky actions that on average probably raise healthcare costs. Nevertheless, few suggest that the state should prohibit every risky activity...
...meeting. The assembly deteriorated into a bonafide royal rumble; only suplexes were missing in a meeting marked by shouts, sulks, scuffles, and walk-outs by council members.Monday’s match pitted a majority of the UC who hoped to overturn current council bylaws that prohibit funding of “discriminatory” groups (bill 62.35) against a status-quo contingency. Although outnumbered, the latter group pinned their hopes on amending Article 7 of the UC Constitution, which mainly deals with the passing of bylaws changes. Under this new bill, two-thirds of the Council would be required...