Newsfront
December, 2005
Can you kill an Embryo?As part of their efforts to ban stem-cell research, antiabortion activists have set their sights on in vitro fertilization. In this process a handful of a woman's eggs are fertilized, and a doctor implants one or two. The other embryos are frozen for future attempts (an estimated 400,000 embryos are in storage, some dating to the 1970s). About three percent of these embryos are used for medical purposes (including stem-cell research), and two percent are destroyed. But som...
