Although prisoners who are on death row had hurt many people or maybe even some cases families, there is no reason for them to use as Guinea pigs. ... In the government's case there is no distinction between a human being and an animal such as monkeys, rats, and rabbits that die every year from false accusations pertaining to an experiment. ... "Scores of desperate, mostly uneducated African-American prisoners offered themselves up as human guinea pigs for a dollar a day in experiments ranging from relatively innocuous studies of deodorants and detergents to dangerous work on dioxin ...

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Researchers also use animals for tests to try to protect the public from dangerous chemicals, (Day, 13) such as those included in detergents, bleach, and other household products. ... They would force they eyes of the rabbit open and let mustard gas fester for days, they would then compare their findings to the effects on humans. ... The results from these types of tests help scientists understand what harmful effect could happen to humans if came into contact with the chemicals that are in our everyday life. ... The latest amendment was passed in 1990, which concerned the welfare of guinea pi...

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This statement is very difficult to follow; almost no person believes this statement whole-heartedly. ... It gives way for someone to say, if a person is a vegetable, has no vital capabilities, this person's life is of no worth anymore. ... If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ... If we compare a severely defective human infant with a non-human animal, a dog or a pig, for example,...

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