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To: Poet who wrote (407)8/18/2001 4:49:10 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 51717
 
Yes. I've been following the stem cell issue for a while, and W's solution is indeed pretty foggy. The idea of W the deep thinker pondering this carefully is amusing, the handlers just came up with what they thought looked good politically.

There's a big local angle in the debate, as describe in nytimes.com . This probably had something to do with why Tommy Thompson was pushing so hard for stem cell funding. I find the idea of a patent on a cell type sort of odd. There was also this article from a few days earlier, that puts the "destruction of life" line in perspective: nytimes.com

The number of embryos disposed of by clinics is not known because there is no national authority that gathers the statistics. In Britain, however, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority has reported that some 50,000 babies have been born through in vitro fertilization since 1991, and 294,584 surplus human embryos have been destroyed.

According to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, about 100,000 children have been born in the United States by in vitro fertilization, or twice the number in Britain, implying that some 600,000 embryos would have been destroyed if American clinics followed the same five- year storage limit used in Britain. Only a small fraction of the discarded embryos would provide as many stem cells as researchers could use.
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