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See, for instance, the views expressed by some Members of this Council in our July 
2002 report Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, Chapter 6, and in 
the personal statement of Council Members Robert George and Alfonso Gomez-Lobo. 
See, for instance, National Institutes of Health, Report of the Human Embryo Re- 
search Panel, Bethesda, MD.: NIH, 1994; and the position articulated by several Mem- 
bers of this Council in our July 2002 report Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An 
Ethical Inquiry, Chapter 6. 
See, for instance, McGee, G., “The Idolatry of Absolutizing in the Stem Cell Debate," 
American Journal of Bioethics 2(1): 53-54 (2002). 
See, for instance, Green, R., op. cit., p. 20. 
See, for instance, the views expressed by some Members of this Council in our July 
2002 report Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, Chapter 6, and in 
the personal statements of Council Members Gilbert Meilaender, William Hurlbut, 
Robert George and Alfonso Gomez-Lobo. 
"Report of the Ethics Advisory Board," 44 Fed. Reg. 35,033-35,058 (June 18, 1979) at 
35,056. 
NIH, op. cit., Report of the Human Embryo Research Panel, p. 2. 
National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC), Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell 
Research Bethesda, MD.: Vol. I, p. ii; cf. p. 2 (September 1999). 
See, for instance, Lebacqz, K., “On the Elusive Nature of Respect," in Holland, S., 
Lebacqz K., and Zoloth, L., eds.. The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, Cambridge, 
MA.: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 149-162; and the personal statement of Council Member 
Rebecca Dresser, appended to the Council’s July 2002 report Human Cloning and Hu- 
man Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry. 
Hoffman, D.I., et al., “Cryopreserved Embryos in the United States and Their Avail- 
ability for Research," Fertility and Sterility 79: 1063-1069 (2003). 
See, for instance. Spike, J., op. cit., p. 45. 
See, for instance, the testimony of Michael West before the Labor, HHS, and Educa- 
tion Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, December 4, 2001, among 
others. 
Outka, G., “The Ethics of Stem cell research," a paper presented to the Council for 
its April 2002 meeting, and available on the Council website at www.bioethics.gov. A 
slightly revised version appeared in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 12:2, pp. 
175-213. 
Ibid. 
See, for instance, “The Stem Cell Sell," Commonweal, August 17, 2001; Meilaender, 
G., “Spare Embryos," The Weekly Standard, August 26, 2002; and Council discussion 
of Gene Outka’ s paper, in its April 2002 meeting, a transcript of which is available on 
the Council website at www.bioethics.gov. 
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