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In late October, the Bush administration "revised the charter of a federal advisory committee concerned with the safety of research volunteers to specify that embryos in experiments are 'human subjects' whose welfare should be considered along with that of fetuses, children and adults," reported the AP on October 3 0th. The National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee, created in 1995, "offers recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], which would then have to initiate rulemaking or encourage legislation if it wanted to put any new protections in place." In addition, that committee is presently vacant and would have to be reconstituted before the charter revisions would have any tangible impact.
Nonetheless, this symbolic gesture earned plaudits from pro-life activists. "We applaud the Bush administration for recognizing the humanity of the embryo," stated Ken Connor, president of the Family Research ...