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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (745864)7/23/2006 6:33:58 AM
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Immoral, wasteful, brain-dead Luddites:

Not to use surplus embryos for research, with the consent of the donors, is immoral, research proponents say.

Fertility clinics routinely create more human embryos than couples need for their family. Despite federal adoption aid, it's still exceedingly rare for a couple that has undergone fertility treatments and had their family to want someone else to bear their biological child.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., a proponent of embryonic stem cell research, has noted that an estimated 400,000 surplus embryos are stored in clinic freezers around the country, and only 128 of these adoptions have occurred. Most surplus embryos are discarded....
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