Fetal Tissue Fallout

The duty of care is a fundamental principle of medicine that should be at the heart of the debate surrounding Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue research. And that duty includes taking advantage of avenues of hope for current and future patients. We have a duty to use fetal tissue for research and...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New England journal of medicine 2015-09, Vol.373 (10), p.890-891
1. Verfasser: Charo, R. Alta
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The duty of care is a fundamental principle of medicine that should be at the heart of the debate surrounding Planned Parenthood and fetal tissue research. And that duty includes taking advantage of avenues of hope for current and future patients. We have a duty to use fetal tissue for research and therapy. This statement might seem extreme in light of recent events that have reopened a seemingly long-settled debate over whether such research ought even be permitted, let alone funded by the government. Morality and conscience have been cited to justify defunding, and even criminalizing, the research, just as morality and conscience have been cited to justify not only health care professionals' refusal to provide certain legal medical services to their patients but even their obstruction of others' fulfillment of that duty. But this duty of care should, I believe, . . .
ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMp1510279