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The
British government approved new laws allowing medical research using
cells from human embryos. This could lead to new treatments for diseases.
We heard from Greg Clovis, Executive Director of the organisation
Human Life International, and Michael Wilks, head of the ethics committee
of the British Medical Assocation. |
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21st
December 2000 Embryo
Research in Great Britain |
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Listen
to Greg Clovis |
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objection primarily is that we can never do evil that good might
come of it. We can never use human persons and this is precisely what we're
doing. We're using other human persons as objects for our benefits. That
is the crux of the matter. |
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primarily:
the most important
reason for not approving of the research that:
here, 'that' means 'so that' precisely:
exactly
using other human persons as objects for our benefits: using other people
like objects for our own good crux:
the crux
of a problem is the most important part |
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Listen
to Michael Wilks |
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does have the potential for helping a lot of patients with quite common
diseases like diabetes, but until we've done the research on stem cells
and understand a lot more about how stem cells can be persuaded to become
more specialised tissue we won't know exactly how much potential there
is. |
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potential:
if something has potential, it is capable of being useful in the future stem
cells: a cell is the smallest independent part of an animal or a plant. A
stem cell is a kind of cell which is present at the very early stages of development tissue:
in animals and plants, tissue consists of cells that are similar in appearance
and function |
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