鈥淚f our leftover embryos hadn鈥檛 gone to research, they would have gone into some trash bin for medical waste.鈥�
Elizabeth Edwardsen, who has MS, on why she is glad she donated her leftover IVF embryos to medical science (Los Angeles Times, 27 May)
鈥淵ou have my babies there. I need you to hand them over.鈥�
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Donielle Brinkman, an evangelical Christian who some years ago 鈥渁dopted鈥� 11 unwanted frozen embryos, only to find that because of a zip code error they had been returned to a FedEx warehouse. She became pregnant with one of the embryos and her son Tanner celebrated his fourth birthday with President Bush at the White House last week (The Washington Post, 31 May)
鈥淐an sharp stick control be far behind?鈥�
Peter Hamm of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence comments on a paper in the British Medical Journal calling for sharp-pointed knives to be banned on public safety grounds (The New York Times, 27 May)
鈥淭o poach and rely on highly skilled foreign workers from poor countries in the public sector is akin to the crime of theft.鈥�
Medical journal The Lancet argues in an editorial that rich countries should not rely on developing countries to train their medical staff (28 May)
鈥淚鈥檝e smelt one and tracked several since then and you cannot come much closer than that.鈥�
Australian explorer Col Bailey on the search for the Tasmanian tiger, a carnivorous marsupial thought to have been extinct since 1936. There is a A$1.25 million (US$950,000) reward to anyone who can prove that the species still survives (BBC online, 29 May)