WASHINGTON, May 27 (LSN) – “Ethicist” Arthur Caplan, who is director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said in an interview yesterday that the most likely source of human embryos for research is the pool of an estimated 50,000 frozen and unwanted embryos in the nation’s in vitro fertilization banks. “Sacrificing some of them … is tragic, but morally defensible,” he insisted. “The only issue driving this [ban] is abortion politics,” said Caplan. ” Speaking of whether human embyos are “people” Caplan said, “I don’t think they are, but some of them are going to have to be sacrificed… to find out what stem cells can do.” For the complete interview press release see: https://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-26-1999/0000949342&EDATE=
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“ETHICIST” ARGUES FOR HUMAN EMBRYO RESEARCH
WASHINGTON, May 27 (LSN) – “Ethicist” Arthur Caplan, who is director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said in an interview yesterday that the most likely source of human embryos for research is the pool of an estimated 50,000 frozen and unwanted embryos in the nation’s in vitro fertilization banks. “Sacrificing some of them … is tragic, but morally defensible,” he insisted. “The only issue driving this [ban] is abortion politics,” said Caplan. ” Speaking of whether human embyos are “people” Caplan said, “I don’t think they are, but some of them are going to have […]
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