” This is the same man who used our tax dollars for experimenting on the corpses of unborn children. His actions contradict his words (qtd. Shaw, 2). To “respect the dignity of Americans” we must not perform experiments on people unwillingly, even if it is an unborn baby. The story of Mary Jeanne Connell is a good example of a person’s dignity and rights being violated.

William Speed Weed said, “Research on humans is a privilege, not a right,” in an article for the Washington Post. Some doctors today may take the “privileges” for granted. If the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institution of Health would start monitoring doctors more and putting out stricter rules and fines for breaking the rules, they may be able to help save many patients lives. The FDA and NIH should also make guidelines for the news media. The media should only be able to report things that are certain and true not false hopes that may lead people to thinking that doctors and scientist have found cures for a disease when they really only have started on the research for it.

The drug FIAU was being tested for the use on patients with chronic Hepatitis B. The NIH ignored some complaints of the patients. To make the patients and the doctors feel better the doctors conducted extra tests to make sure that the side effects were normal, but found nothing. A few days later people started to die. Howard Tichenor died of a fatal buildup of waste materials in his liver. After this, Doctor Hoofnagle called off the experiment and called in all of the other patients to run extensive tests on them to make sure that they were not in danger. In the end of the experiments seven of the patients had to have liver transplants, five died, and two were hospitalized. According the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) records indicated that tests performed on animals showed a high toxicity in the monkey’s livers, but doctors ignored this and did not tell the patients (Schwartz). When doctors perform experiments on animals and a problem occurs, doctors should have to report it right away so that the patients will know the risks they are taking and the NIH can make a decision if the experiment should continue. Another case study, in which warning signs were ignored, was the case of Jesse Gelsinger.

In October 1946, Mary Jeanne Connell became one of the many statistics of experimental medicine. She was twenty-five years old at the time that she went for treatment for her anemia and low weight. She recalled a nurse who asked her, “Would you like to help humanity?” She just laughed and said, “No thanks,” but little did she know that she had no choice. The doctor came in to give her a shot that she thought was her normal shot for her anemia, but it was not. The doctor said that she would feel a “warm sensation” and then he injected her with uranium salts. This exposed Jeanne to a level of radi

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