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^ National Research Act, Pub. L. No. 93-348, § 213, 88 Stat. 342 (passed by the 93"* 
Congress as H.R. 7724, July 12, 1974). 
^ National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behav- 
ioral Research, Research on the Fetus: Report and Recommendations (Washington, 
D.C.) 1975. Reprinted at 40 Fed. Reg. 33,526 (1975). 
^ “HEW Support of Human In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer: Report of the 
Ethics Advisory Board," 44 Fed. Reg. 35,033 (Jime 18, 1979) at 35,055-35,058. 
Ibid. 
® National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-43, § 121(c), 
107 Stat. 122 (1993), repealing 45 C.F.R § 46.204(d). 
® National Institutes of Health, Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel, Bethesda, 
MD: NIH (1994). 
“Statement by the President," as made available by the White House Press Office, 
December 2, 1994. 
® The text of the Dickey Amendment can be found in each year’s Labor/HHS Appro- 
priations Bill. The original version, introduced by Representative Jay Dickey, is in § 128 
of Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I, Pub. L. No. 104-99, 110 Stat. 26 (1996). For 
subsequent fiscal years, the rider is foimd in Title V, General Provisions, of the Labor, 
HHS and Education Appropriations Acts in the following public laws: FY 1997, Pub. L. 
No. 104-208: FY 1998, Pub. L. No. 105-78: FY 1999, Pub. L. No. 105-277: FY 2000, Pub. L. 
No. 106-113: FY 2001, Pub. L. No. 106-554: and FY 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-116. The most 
current version (identical in substance to the rest) is in Consolidated Appropriations 
Resolution, 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-7, 117 Stat. 11 (2003). 
® "Rendering legal opinion regarding federal funding for research involving human 
plxiripotent stem cells," Memo from Harriet S. Rabb, General Coimsel of the Depart- 
ment of Health and Human Services to Harold Varmus, Director of the National 
Institutes of Health, January 15, 1999. (Available through the National Archives). 
This case was made, for instance, in a letter authored by Rep. Jay Dickey and signed 
by seventy other Members of Congress to DHHS Secretary Donna Shalala, February 11, 
1999. 
DHHS Secretary Shalala argued this point in a letter responding to the Congressional 
letter of opposition (see note 10, above), February 23, 1999. 
President Bush has made a number of statements articulating the position that 
nascent human life (including at the early embryonic stage) is deserving of protection 
and ought not be violated. See especially: "Stem Cell Science and the Preservation of 
Life,” The New York Times, August 12, 2001, p. D13: “Remarks by the President on 
Human Cloning Legislation, ” as made available by the White House Press (Office, April 
10, 2002: “Remarks by the President at the Dedication of the Pope John Paul II Cultural 
Center," as made available by the White House Press (Office, March 22, 2001: and 
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