Sunday May 23, 1999 The Washington Post reported that an ethics panel appointed by Council on Foreign Relations President BJ Clinton, recommended the US government begin funding research on human embryos despite a ban imposed against such experimentation by Congress. The ethics panel is called the National Bioethics Advisory Commission. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission was established by Council on Foreign Relations member President BJ Clinton through Executive Order #12975 [http://frwebgate2.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=6880919107+0+0+ 0&WAISaction=retrieve], and met for the first time in October 1996. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission is a Council on Foreign Relation extension into government. The Council on Foreign Relations is using the National Bioethics Advisory Commission to change public policies that govern us all to provide public funding of Council on Foreign Relations controlled medical and university human subject experimentation and research. The public policies that govern us all impose a ban by Congress on funding research on human embryos. The Council on Foreign Relations established and controlled National Bioethics Advisory Commission has concluded it is potentially unfair for Congress to continue its 4-year-old funding ban on human embryo research. A draft version of a new National Bioethics Advisory Commission report calls for legislation to allow federally-financed researchers to conduct studies on leftover embryos from fertility clinics if the embryos were no longer wanted by the parents who made them. Gary Ellis, director of the National Institute of Health's Office for protection from Research Risks told an University of Minnesota audience, that the chief "catalytic event" in creation of the new National Bioethics Advisory Commission was 1993 publicity regarding 1940s experiments during which plutonium was injected into human subjects. When Council on Foreign Relations member President BJ Clinton needed someone to chair the National Bioethics Advisory Commission that would provide "guidance to federal agencies on the ethical conduct of current and future human biological and behavioral research," he chose Council on Foreign Relations member Harold Tafler Shapiro. Council on Foreign Relations member Shapiro is President of Princeton University and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from McGill University in Canada, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. Council on Foreign Relations member John Gibbons, assistant to Council on Foreign Relations member President BJ Clinton for science and Technology, said, "The President's selection of President Shapiro to head the National Bioethics Advisory Commission is the best possible barometer of the importance that the White House attaches to these issues, Dr. Shapiro is a respected scholar and leader whose thoughtful contributions have helped shape public policy in science and education, and his willingness to accept this appointment is a guarantor that the commission's work will be thorough and deliberate." Council on Foreign Relations member Shapiro has had previous experience in Washington, D.C., and a long-standing interest in medical issues. He served on Council on Foreign Relations member President Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1990 to 1992, and he chaired the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Employer-Based Health Benefits. Former chair of the executive board of the University of Michigan Hospitals, he is currently a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and a director of Dow Chemical Co. He is also chair of the board of trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a trustee of the Universities Research Association. In February of 1997, following reports of the successful cloning of a sheep, Council on Foreign Relations President BJ Clinton asked the National Bioethics Advisory Commission to review the profound ethical issues raised by the possible cloning of human beings. On June 9, 1997, Council on Foreign Relations member Commission Chair Harold Shapiro, presented the Commission report to the President. The Commission found unanimously that it is morally unacceptable for anyone to attempt to create a child with the technology used to create Dolly the sheep. The Commission also found that the new technology may have many agricultural and medical benefits, including the development of medicines, therapies for diseases such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes, and prospects for repair and regeneration of human tissues. The Commission concluded that the cloning of DNA, cells, tissues, and non-human animals --using somatic cell nuclear transfer and other cloning techniques --is not ethically problematic when conducted in compliance with existing regulations and guidelines. Acting on the Commission's key recommendation, Council on Foreign Relations President BJ Clinton announced legislation banning the use of the new technology to clone human beings. The proposal, the Cloning Prohibition Act of 1997, is carefully worded to ensure that it will not interfere with beneficial biomedical and agricultural activities. The NBAC's authorization was to expire on October 3, 1997. On May 16, 1997, Council on Foreign Relations member President BJ Clinton, issued Executive Order #13046 extending of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission until October 3, 1999. No doubt Council on Foreign Relations member Clinton will soon be issuing another Executive Order extending the board for several more years. In December 1998, Council on Foreign Relations member NBAC Chairman Shapiro, addressed the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University [ http://www.princeton.edu/pr/hts/9812-bioeth.html ] on Bioethics and Public Policy. CFR member Shapiro said, "The relationship between bioethics and public policy has become a rather capacious subject that asks a rather simple question; namely, which moral imperatives that arise out of the study and consideration of bioethical issues should be reflected in public policies that govern us all. Such policies are after all one of the end points of the ethical debate. The question is simple enough, but the answers are difficult because we live in a society where even the most thoughtful citizens do not share a moral consensus on many bioethical issues. Indeed, despite the rich, inspiring and diverse array of current thinking in moral philosophy and bioethics, we continue to lack a moral consensus on some of the most profound ethical claims that some believe ought to be more fully reflected in actual public policies. This, of course, is not surprising, since it has long been recognized that no set of abstract rules can be expected to satisfy the particular contingencies represented by the cultural traditions and uncertainties that must be accommodated in real public policies. Nevertheless, since humans are a social species, all human societies continue to seek to establish rules of conduct that govern relationships between individuals and are thought to serve their collective interests. Furthermore, this search goes on within an evolving cultural context, and these collective rules of conduct must be constantly reviewed and perhaps revised and updated." The public policies that govern us all impose a ban by Congress on funding research on human embryos. Ethics and morals are the essence of humanity. Without ethics and morals one becomes inhuman. In TRAGEDY AND HOPE, Quigley writes about a Council on Foreign Relations philosophical doctrine called "rationalization. "Rationalization" removes ethics and morals from the intelligence equation. "Rationalization" is a false philosophy, driven by selfishness and used to rationalize immoral decisions. "Rationalization" disregards the adverse effects ones actions can have on others as long the desired result is obtained. "Rationalization" is an application of the philosophy that "the ends justify the means." [ see article Rationalization http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/Rationalization.html ] Council on Foreign Relations "ethics" are driven by a dollar philosophy based on greed. The 2500+ Council on Foreign Relations members control over half the nation's industrial and financial assets; occupy the top positions in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government; control television networks and news agencies; head the largest law firms; direct the largest private foundations and prestigious universities; and hold the top commands in the military. The National Bioethics Advisory Commission conclusion that the moral cost of destroying embryos in research is outweighed by the social good that could come from the work is propaganda. The propaganda is designed to sway public opinion to support the recommended legislation to allow federally-financed researchers to conduct studies on leftover embryos from fertility clinics. The propaganda is designed to allow such legislation to be railroaded through Congress while giving the perception the issues involved have been given a fair public hearing. This legislation has very little to do with social good -- it has plenty to do with hundreds of billions of dollars of federally funded research and how Council on Foreign Relations members can profit from them. ### roundtable http://news.excite.com/news/r/990523/00/news-science-embryo >U.S. Panel To Support Embryo Research -Report >Click on our sponsors! Updated 12:41 AM ET May 23, 1999 > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ethics panel appointed by > President Clinton will recommend the U.S. government begin > funding research on human embryos, despite a ban imposed by > Congress, The Washington Post reported Sunday. > > The newspaper said the panel had concluded that the moral cost > of destroying embryos in research was outweighed by the > social good that could come from the work. > > Citing recent evidence that some human embryo cells have the > potential to grow into replacement tissues to treat a wide variety > of chronic diseases, the National Bioethics Advisory > Commission has concluded it is potentially unfair to millions of > patients for Congress to continue its 4-year-old funding ban on > human embryo research, the Post said. > > A draft version of the report and commissioners in interviews > said federal rules should be written that ensure an appropriate > measure of protection and respect for human embryos, the > newspaper said. > > Those rules would allow federally-financed researchers to > conduct studies on leftover embryos from fertility clinics if the > embryos were no longer wanted by the parents who made > them. > > "These are very difficult judgements to make, but it's a > balancing act," Harold Shapiro, chairman of the bioethics > commission and president of Princeton University, told the > Post. > > "We have moral obligations to the future health and welfare of > people, and we need to balance these with, at the very least, the > symbolic moral obligation we have to the embryo." he said. > > The Post said the panel's recommendations went further than > those recently proposed by the National Institutes of Health. > Those call for federally funded research on laboratory-grown > human embryo cells, but not on human embryos themselves ____ Visit the Roundtable Web Page: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How many Secretaries of State belonged to the Council on Foreign Relations? 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