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To the Editor: As one of the dissenting members of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel, I believe that Kassirer and Angell (Nov. 26, 1992, issue)¹ too easily dismissed our concern that transplantation therapy using tissue from induced abortion would encourage abortion.

Many women are ambivalent about abortion, and many find the decision difficult to make^2,3. About one third change their mind at least once^3,4. Women may vacillate because the decision is normally based on more than one factor^4,5. For these women, "the pros and cons of the decision [are] somewhat evenly balanced,"⁴ and abortion is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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