Respect for human dignity is essential in the authorization and conduct of scientific research, a point underscored by numerous and horrific past failures to establish or follow such protocols. As a UW-Madison graduate with substantial coursework in the biological sciences, I heard the declaration from more than one of my professors that the ethical questions surrounding pushing the boundaries of scientific inquiry should be ?set aside and dealt with later? if there was ?great potential? for medical breakthroughs ? a philosophy that can also reduce human life in its various parts and stages to the status of mere research tools and manufactured products. We can do better. I have introduced Assembly Bill 214 to establish reasonable standards for human tissue research and prohibit the sale or use of aborted fetal body parts for experimentation or other purposes.
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