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Tuesday December 11, 2001
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FERTILITY CLINIC TO SCREEN SIBLINGS FOR "SPARE PARTS"
LONDON, December 11, 2001 (LSN.ca) - Fertility Dr Mohammed Taranissi has announced plans to set up a clinic in London to screen in vitro embryos to find genetic matches for older born siblings so as to be able to become tissue, organ or stem cell donors. The procedure has been used in the United States and has led to the birth of babies whose umbilical cord blood has been used for stem cell treatments for older siblings. The development follows logically from permitting in vitro fertilization in the first place. IVF procedures already kill embryonic children by the thousands. The proposed screening merely ads to the selection process.
Dominic Baster of the UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children commented: "The more sinister aspect of this development is that PGD for any reason entails fatal discrimination against individual human embryos who do not meet the desired criteria. The utilitarian argument, which says that the killing of any number of early human embryos is a justifiable means to the end of curing a child of a serious illness, is flawed. It is never justifiable to kill an innocent human being to save another."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1702000/17028...
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