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...such research was forbidden by the pro-life Administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Last year President Clinton quietly called for an end to his predecessors' ban and asked the National Institutes of Health to develop rules to guide the research. And since February an expert NIH advisory panel has been debating the details of what is sure to be one of the most controversial policies to come out of the Clinton Administration...
...life organizations are not waiting for the official release of the NIH recommendations; they are lining up political allies in an effort to derail the guidelines. A group of 32 members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split...
...expected debut of the NIH guidelines is hardly coming at an ideal time for the White House, since September will be a make-or-break month in the Administration's push to pass health-care reform legislation this year. Among the many parts of the Democrats' health plan that have stirred opposition is the President's insistence that abortion services be covered by insurance. Some pro-life members of Congress may turn against the entire plan on this issue alone, and they will be doubly upset by the proposals for federally funded embryo research...
Sensitive to ethical concerns, the NIH advisory panel intends to recommend strict limits on embryo studies. In most cases, for example, the embryos would not be allowed to develop for more than 14 days, which is the standard in countries that allow such research. Under no circumstance would experiments on embryos be allowed after the 20th day, when the tube of cells that is destined to become the brain and spine closes...
...Emily Morey-Holton, payload scientist atNASA's Ames Research Center in California,oversees all three science projects on Endeavour.The experiments on this mission are "the firstpeer-reviewed cell cultures by NIH that haveflown...