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The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday, May 23, 1999 Ethics Panel Will Recommend Federal Embryo Research THE WASHINGTONPOST chairman of the bioethics com- WASHINGTON — A presidentially appointed ethics panel has decided to recommend that the federal government begin fund ing some research on human em bryos, saying the moral cost of de- stroying embryos in research is outweighed by the social good that could come fromthe work. Citing recent evidence that some human embryocells have missionandpresident of Prince ton University. “We have moral obligations to the future health and welfare of people, and we faced with life-threatening and chronically disabling diseases want science to move asquickly as advocating research on human such funding and has renewed embryonic stem cells, the em- that ban annuaally eversince. by the National Institutes of erated so much recent excite- missioncalls for a more limited Health. Those call for federally ment The newgroup, Patients’ Coali Very least. the symbolic moral obligation we haveto the embryo The recommendations go fur- ther than thoserecently proposed newcoalition of patient groups _bryo-derivedcells that have gen is sentially unfair to millions of patients for Congressto continue its broad, 4-year-old funding ban selves ‘The more conservative NIH dozen national organizations such as the American CancerSo recommendations already have drawnfire from some members of Congress. Observers said the ciety on human embryoresearch Instead, federal rules should be written that ensure an appropri ate measureof protection and re spectfor human embryos, accord ing toa draft versionof the report and interviews with commission ers and others. Those rules would allow federally financed re searchers to conduct studies on leftover embryos, from fertility bioethics commission's report is likely to escalate the long-stand ing political tussle over the moral stalus of embryos and the wrench ing national debate over abortion Ihave a sense that this is going to be one of the liveliest debates on the Senate and the House floors this session said Sen. Ar len Specter, R-Pa who last fall madethem. “Theseare very difficult judgments to make. but it’s a balaneing act,” said Harold Shapiro man embr propriations rider blocking ail he 17-member bioethics com- esearch is pe nefits that are to sick and ethi i others provision that andit entific and But the tween biggest difference be 19 and 1999. experts said, is that the benefits of em: bryo research are now far less theoretical. If the morality of hu- es, “and anytaint that ch from the so s diminishes in propc the potential good which th search may yield tion for Urgent Research, or CURe, includes more than two on 4, ay oo uc and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. At an inau gural event this month, the group released poll results indicating that 74 percent of Americans sup port human embryonic stem-cell research We'renot naive and we know there's not going to bea cureto. held a hearing on stem-cell re morrow,” Perry said, “But it’s a goodthing for federal funding to bethere becauseit means the re search will be done morequi giants moreaccountableto therearesigns that public opinion may moving towardsupport of at least limited embryo research. Patients and their families to bereleased next month, is the second federalethics analysis in jess than five years to conclude that certain kinds of research on clinics the embryos were no searc longer wantedby theparents who Contentious as the issue is, xperiments of panel convenedby the NIH, was partially approved by President Clintonin 1994 but th ted by Congress, whichpassed an ap: ety of chronic diseases, the Na- tional Bioethics Advisory Commission has concluded that it human embryos warrant fede support. The previous e, by possible.” said Daniel Perry. executive director of the Alliance for Aging Research andchief of a need to balancethesewith, at the funded research on laboratorygrown human embryocells, but not on human embryos them- thepotentialto grow into replacementtissues to treat a widevari range than did the 1994 panel. 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