[ExI] Human Fetal Tissue Research

[Dave Sill]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:59 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> > Is fetal tissue legal even privately?
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> Of course.  The Fed has no say on that which it does not fund.
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False, obviously. Fetal tissue is legal to possess and use in research, but
that could easily change.


> It cannot say what one can do with one’s own donated embryo.
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False, obviously.


>   There is no federal law covering that, and there cannot be, even if
> congress wanted to do something like that, because Amendment 4 would
> prevent and preclude any possible enforcement.
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False, obviously.

Maybe in Spikelandia the Constitution reigns supreme. But in the USA
there's a big difference between Constitutional theory and practice. The
Commerce Clause has been used to basically give the Feds a blank check
regarding what they're allowed to do.

-Dave
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