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...could insist that he had kept his promises to the Republican right, which abandoned his father after the elder Bush broke his no-new-taxes pledge. To placate scientists who argue that Bush did not go far enough, he promised "aggressive federal funding of research on umbilical-cord, placenta, adult and animal stem cells, which do not involve the same moral dilemma." The government is already spending $250 million on such research this year...
What next? Today a blastocyst is created for harvesting. Tomorrow, researchers may find that a five-month-old fetus with a discernible human appearance, suspended in an artificial placenta, may be the source of even more promising body parts. At what point do we draw the line...
...then, 1 1/2 years later, David and Nancy, informed by a placenta-sampling test, stood before their congregation again. David recounted Hope's brief history and reported on his "medical procedure." Then he announced that "amazingly, in spite of that, we're now expecting a child, a little boy." His listeners oohed, ahhed and applauded. "Thank you," David said. "And this little boy will be born with the same syndrome Hope had." Quite audible on the videotape of the event is the sound of several hundred people gasping...
Dozens of cosmetic companies have informed the FDA of their use of human placenta, but most have been afraid to advertise it because consumers are squeamish about the substance as well as its source. Mila is supplied by Russian maternity wards, but Shiseido is very secretive about the placental extract in its popular Revitalizing Cream; the Japanese company won't even say what kind of animal it comes from. Progressive Beauty Brands executive David Blum admits his Placenta Plus products sell best overseas and in Hispanic communities, "where there's less resistance to the word placenta...
Skepticism reigns in other quarters. "There's nothing magical about placenta," says N.Y.U. dermatology professor Ronald Brancaccio. Because of the extensive sterilization process, he adds, "if the cream works, it's probably because of the moisturizing base rather than the placenta...