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V. 59 N. 2 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2010.219
La regulación jurídica de la investigación sobre cèlulas troncales
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This paper considers the legal implications of stem cells research. After a synthetic approach to the notion of stem cells and their types, we present the juridical principles involved in this matter. We analize the Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research approved by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published on July 2009. This Guidelines apply only to those projects that have NIH funding and that deal with embryos donated in or outside the United States. In a critical approach, we conclude that these Guidelines will allow the funding of projects that will involve the deliberate destruction of human embryos, affecting his human right to life. The Guidelines include some prohibitions concerning the creation of hybrids, cloning and parthenogenesis. Informed consent is established in the Guidelines, but this requirement does not legitimize research that affects the right to life. Although the Guidelines maintain the Dickey Amendment which forbids federal funding for embryo destruction, it will allow federal funding for projects that deal with embryonic stem cells that were derived through the destruction of human embryos with private funding or overseas. Even if it would have been possible to create embryonic stem cells without embryo destruction, there would be ethical and juridical objections concerning the use of assisted reproduction technologies. In order to provide a complete legal regulation of stem cells research we propose: enact criminal laws forbidding embryo destruction; ban assisted reproduction technologies, especially extracorporeal ones; ban all process of derivation of embryonic human stem cells; forbid the donation of human embryos; enact a legal regulation for adult stem cells.
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La regulación jurídica de la investigación sobre cèlulas troncales. (2010). Medicina e Morale, 59(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2010.219
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