Thursday, October 19, 2006

Fertility Innovation or Exploitation?

"...more than 1,000 women undergo in vitro fertilization procedures every week in this country, and countless others receive other kinds of fertility treatments. And at least some of the recent exciting breakthroughs in reproductive medicine, critics say, have been the result of ethically questionable practices, in which women served as subjects in ill-defined research projects or their eggs or embryos were sidetracked to laboratories without the donors' knowledge, to be used in experiments and eventually tossed in the garbage..."

Full story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/science/ethical/fertility2.htm

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