The requirement of consent for the use of an embryo in research is consistent with all tissue donation procedures and does not in itself constitute either an inducement to destroy the embryo or undue complicity in the progenitors’ decisions. For a fuller discussion of this matter in relation to fetal tissue research, see Report of the Human Fetal Tissue Transplantation Research Panel, December 1988:4-5.

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