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To the Editor: As members of the Human Embryo Research Panel of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), we wish to correct what we believe are misrepresentations of the panel's report in the article about human-embryo research by Annas et al. (May 16 issue).¹

First, it is not the case that in the panel's report² the treatment of the moral status of the early embryo represented "a bald political compromise on a moral issue." Unlike virtually every other national group reporting on embryo research (including Britain's Warnock Committee and the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies), the NIH panel . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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