Bill 214 to establish reasonable standards for human tissue research

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Respect for human dignity is essential in the authorization and conduct of scientific research, a point underscored by numerous and horrific past failures to establish or follow such protocols. As a UW-Madison graduate with substantial coursework in the biological sciences, I heard the declaration from more than one of my professors that the ethical questions surrounding pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry should be “set aside and dealt with later” if there was “great potential” for medical breakthroughs — a philosophy that can also reduce human life in its various parts and stages to the status of mere research tools and manufactured products. We can do better. I have introduced Assembly Bill 214 to establish reasonable standards for human tissue research and prohibit the sale or use of aborted fetal body parts for experimentation or other purposes.

During the 1990s, researchers at UW-Madison initiated several experiments utilizing aborted fetal body parts, as was recently uncovered through internal UW documents and research logs — including a thank you to former Madison abortionist Denny Christenson for his provision of aborted babies to UW officials. While several UW officials maintained that such experiments were not taking place at the time of this bill’s introduction, it is disturbing that a UW spokeswoman for efforts to open a late-term abortion clinic at the UW Surgery Center publicly cited the potential for induced abortions at the facility to serve as a supply of fetal body parts for UW research.

Ref and Read more: http://badgerherald.com/oped/2011/09/23/bill_protects_human_.php

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