Show A2 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday Nation K November 12 2003 1 statro ©oils PsimoDs ErantoFyiffiDiin© BALTIMORE tAP) Treating patients u ilh (lie embryonic stem cells approved hy President Bush for ' federally funded research would he unethical and risky a 'medical ethics panel said ' The approved cell lines created for possible future disease treat-inenwere initially grown on mouse cells That could expose humans to an animal virus their f immune systems couldn’t fight the panel sitid The experts said Monday that safer stem cell lines now exist bur those would ndf be eligible for federal funding'' The medical ethics panel which ' included scientists philosophers was the latest sign of the friction ethicists and lawyers from the United between stem cell scientists and States and Europe was formed by Bush who two years ago set limits oh the controversial research which Johns Hopkins University UV study the ethical questions arising as stem destroys human emhryos Earlier this year the director' of the: cells move from research to human trials and possibly to human thera- National Institutes of Health called ‘ '' on the president to lift his restric- py lions And a number of scientists Embryonic stem cells have the note that research into stem cells is r ability to grow into all kinds of cells V and theyare sought as potential progressing ir'erseas - treatments for victims of v' A spokesmt n with Bush’s Health imd Human Services IX’purtment ' r Alheimer’s and ParkinsonVdisease said no one was available to com- s diabetes and spinal cord injuries Rut because embryos discarded nient on the ethics panel finding- - lire ethics panel announcement ' ts v ' Jury finds millionaire x' t f uniitieftlhioeaD from fertility clinics are a major source of stem cells the issue has ' sparked an ethical debate On Aug 9 2001 the president ' announced that federal money would he granted for research using only stem cell lines treated by that date 'That way he hoped to stop the destruction of future human embryos groups say stem cell research is tantamount to murder because it starts with the destruction of a human embryo to recover the 'cells''-- : V ' And Pope John Paul II on Monday denounced as “morally contradictory" any medical treatment bused on stem cells taken from embryo tissue ' : Anti-aborti- ' - ' Vatican teaching holds that life ' begins at conception: Bush has also called for a ban on human cloning — including the cloning of embryos solely to cull stem cells for research ' ' Ruth Faden a member of the Johns Hopkins panel and director of" the university’s bioethics institute' said the destruction of human embryos "is a very weighty conclu- sion and wc’re very mindful of V- - - - g that" s’ ' ' innocent JACKSON NJ CAP) — Author- ities early Tuesday began rounding of murder up 24 Bengal tigers from a private sanctuary culminating a battle that d began after a tiger was found roaming the suburbs New Jersey officials got a court order to remove the animals after it determined they were being poorly cared for at the 1 Tigers Only Preservation Society which is k owned by Joan The tigers were being transferred to a Texas animal shelter The saga began in January 1 999' when authorities shot and killed a l(K)se tiger 'wandering around a resi- ' dential subdivision hear Byron- had Marasek’s property-Authoritietried unsuccessfully to tranquilize it Slate officials never proved the tiger belonged to Byron-Maras' known as “The Tiger Lady” but 3 they criticized conditions at her ' facility and refused to renew her " permit to keep the animalsV pen where they were being held After a lengthy court battle her rett anxious 6 get oppeab were exhausted in Noycrn- v group U- - 3 ber 200 L and a judge authorized a n wj nL the to animals to move theVvaCvV-i plan welfare officers injected Texas sanctiiary -- " tiger with a Iran- The first of four large ani! 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Ptocere of Savannah reinforcing church teaching ihat gay sex is a sin who introduced the measured Catholic oppositipn to The bishops will debate the " stetemcht and decide Whether homosexual marriage is Well ' ' known However the Comtoapprbve it later in their ' mittee that drafted the meeting Which runs through it felt a need to "Thursday Later Tuesday the bishops restate the church’s position ' ' as gay unions begin gaining were to hear an update from' the National Review Board a recognition in society ' lay watchdog panel they “Already one state in our ' nation has established the catappointed last year at the docii-mehtsa- " id - w marriage" - “It is not based on the nat-- -’ ural complementarity of male : l1011 was not unfair to homo sexiialsbecause Christians have an obligatioit to "give eh ? ’ The document also states such as designating same:rex Woman: Questions and r ’otherasbeneficiariesofthcir that authorizing Answers About Marriage and wills without granting their marriage "would grant offi- Same-Scial public approval to homo- - unions the same status as Unions" defines ' sexual activity and would nutniage as a "lifelong union mamage of a man and a woman" it 'treat it as if it were morally states that approving a union On ttw Nat: neutral” the authors stateof asame-gendof The US Conference of Catholic couple ' "contradicts ' the nauiirc of the church's posi- said ment Bishops: httpiwwwusccborg ' Mdh and caHed-“Bjet!wee- Author tigning at The Book little November 15 from - er - : to 4pm 6pm LANCE RICHARDSON IhoMottage’ : ‘MdiqueiatSng UeAngsO’ REED BLAKE j v "AfAmvmD" BRUCE DANA GLAD nmss CUSMSAH" RICHARD DECKER RONMcUilLAN AKD SHOULD VSEKF Your Family Book Store 29 s Main 7 524055 I tJ ' 10 off these books on Nov 15 : ‘ ex BOOK SIGNING: - - : ifUlHWlto ' |