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People were so afraid of using (1) ………………………. funds to sponsor the kind of research that a certain subset of the population would find (2) ………………………………….., the government basically advocated all responsibility in IVF research. They basically said, we are not going to use federal funds to support any research involving human (3) …………………… and fetuses. So what resulted from that was that IVF still continue to be investigated, but it became a kind of cowboy science, that was something that was funded by private people who were funding, you know, just sort of the marketplace of fertility clinic and there was no (4) ……………………….. . If there had been federal funds for research grants, then there would have been certain (5) ……………………….. on federal funding and also would have been an opportunity for scientists to actually talk to each other, you know. When people get NIH grants, they often have (6) ………………………….. and they have, you know, some sort of public (7) ……………………… in which they describe some of the things they’ve been learning. But this put everything sort of (8) …………………… the radar and back in to the private marketplace, which was not necessarily good for this kind of research.

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