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“Every Woman First is sponsoring a campaign called ‘Hands Off Our Ovaries’ which is drawing on a wide range of people who don’t want to see women’s bodies used as research – environmentalists and minorities as well as feminists and religious persons,” an article in USA Today reported in March 2006. ‘Missourians Against Human Cloning’ is leading the battle against the Stem Cell Research and Cures initiative on which Missourians will vote on November 7th.
Wesley Smith reported in August that although the pro cloning campaign had already spent $16 million propagandizing the state the outcome remains in doubt.
In Britain, by contrast, women are to be offered cheaper IVF treatment if they donate some of their eggs for research (The Times, 28th July 2006). On 13th January 2006 The Times reported “British scientists are planning to create embryos that are part-human and part-rabbit…”
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