"Dawn K. Martin" wrote:
>
> "the California Supreme Court ruled that he had no entitlement to any rights to his own cells after they had been removed
> from his body."
>
> OUTRAGEOUS -- one is entitled to the old car parts when your car gets a new carb or spark plugs or anything, but not our body parts apparently!

That's probably because old car parts can't be used for research and make
millions of dollars for the researchers.  Can you imagine how it would affect
research if people could stake a claim on the financial benefits from research
on their body parts?

Gitte

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