Letters: July 2004

Letters from the July 2004 issue.

Jul 25, 2004 5:00 AMMay 9, 2023 7:01 PM

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Ah, Life!

As a teacher of both biology and bioethics, I was extremely interested in “The Good Egg,” your May cover story on the hotly debated and morally loaded question of when life begins. The article contained a wealth of scientific information and provided a fantastic tie-in to a wide range of bioethical topics—assisted reproduction, stem cells, abortion, and last but not least, the questionable role that politics sometimes plays in scientific research. Biologists may never be able to definitively answer the question of when human life begins, but I’m happy to see science weighing in on the debate.

BARBARA O’CONNOR

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