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HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN SEEKS PERSONHOOD 2010 AMENDMENT TO CA
CONSTITUTION; 6th STATE
*SACRAMENTO, CA (for 28 September 2009)*
WHAT: A press conference announcing submission of the California Human
Rights Amendment, a proposed 2010 California ballot initiative.
The California Civil Rights Foundation will submit language to
California Attorney General Jerry Brown for a Human Rights Amendment
recognizing the personhood of every human being from the beginning of
the biological development of that human being.
Founded by Walter Hoye, the California Civil Rights Foundation works to
recognize the personhood rights of every human being.
WHEN: Monday, Sep.28 2009, 11 a.m.
WHERE: The Office of the Attorney General, 1300 I Street, Sacramento, CA
95814
WHO:
- Walter Hoye, sponsor of the California Human Rights Amendment and
founder of California Civil Rights Foundation
- Judie Brown president of American Life League
- Lila Rose, president of Live Action and co-sponsor of the California
Human Rights Amendment
WHY:
"It is clear the only way to heal our land and restore the Founders'
vision is to recognize human personhood as a fundamental and
Constitutional right," Judie Brown said. "The mission of the
California Human Rights Amendment is simple, the message direct and
the result will be a profound return to the value that shaped our
civilization. It is always the right time to fight for justice."
"The California Civil Rights Foundation recognizes the inherent human
rights, dignity and worth of all human beings from the beginning of
their biological development," stated Hoye. "If passed, this historic
legislation would make California the first state in the Union to
acknowledge full human rights for every human being. We believe all
human beings should be protected by love and by law."
The California Human Rights Amendment to the Constitution of California:
Article 1, Section 7
(c)"The term "person" applies to all living human beings from the
beginning of their biological development -- regardless of the means
by which they were procreated, method of reproduction, age, race,
sex, gender, physical well-being, function, or condition of physical
or mental dependency and/or disability.
*California Human Rights Amendment:*
http://californiahumanrightsamendment.com/
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*PersonhoodUSA:*
http://www.personhoodusa.com/
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American Life League*:* Personhood
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[[*FYI *-- Note that this article about new "infertility
treatments" using /asexual methods of human reproduction/ was written
over a year ago, and represents only a partial list of the research
studies listed just on PubMed at the time. By now the total number of
such "infertility" research studies performed in IVF and other ART
clinics /and their research laboratories/ has multiplied exponentially.
As noted, the animal studies on "infertility treatments" performed
before moving to human patients is well underway, and as noted asexually
reproduced experimental human embryos are already being implanted into
women as "infertility treatments". But unless one knows the various
dubious "terms" so cleverly used in such searches (e.g., "reconstructed
oocyte", "hemi-cloning", "embryo multiplication", etc.) they are
admittedly difficult to find. Needless to say, many of these implanted
asexually reproduced embryos spontaneously abort; but many of them
don't. *The issues of abortion and human embryo research and human
cloning are no longer separate issues*. *The issues of "sexual
reproduction" and "asexual reproduction" are no longer separate
issues.* This is an empirical fact, not a subjective opinion. It is
not a wonder, then, that lobbyists, politicians, drug companies and
scientists representing the IVF and ART industries have been so
successful in getting blatantly false scientific terms in so many legal
bills and regulations in order to create legal loopholes for their
industries. Check it out yourself. -- *DNI]*]
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_130reproductivecloning.html
Dianne N. Irving, M.A., Ph.D.
copyright July 18, 2008
[Note: This article is copyrighted and thus must be acknowledged when
using its original ideas and resources or quoting from it.]
*So You Think That "Reproductive Cloning" Isn't Done Yet? Guess Again*
*I. Introduction*
In the article, "The future of fertility" [Jeremy Laurance,
Independent.co.uk, July 17, 2008] -- copied in full below -- the
researchers and IVF specialists claim that "reproductive cloning" is an
exciting if not still a far off possibility -- implying that it has yet
to be done.
*Wrong. Guess again.*
But don't take my word for it. Check it out for yourself. All one has
to do to realize this is scan the list of scientific and medical
references provided here below (the tip of the iceberg) that document
the fact that *all sorts of reproductive cloning has been going on for a
long time.** *
*II. "Abortion" now involves asexually reproduced human embryos*
In case it hasn't occurred to people, once cloned and other asexually
reproduced human embryos are implanted into a woman's uterus, then the
"abortion" issue looms large, especially given that such "infertility
treatments" are still rather experimental (not sure what will happen,
either to the embryo or later fetus or the woman). "Prolife" no longer
has the luxury of considering and protecting only sexually reproduced
human beings /in vivo/.
For starters, extensive human cloning, and other forms of human genetic
engineering -- *all of which can asexually reproduce new living
single-cell human organisms (human beings)* -- are already being done in
IVF clinics, for both "research" and for "reproductive" purposes. One
of the most common IVF techniques is called "twinning" -- and twinning
is one of many different kinds of /cloning techniques/. The procedure
mimics the kind of identical twinning that takes place naturally inside
the fallopian tube of a women, resulting in the asexual reproduction of
an identical twin, triplet, etc. This long-used "infertility treatment"
involves implanting the resulting twins/triplets into a woman's uterus,
and bringing them to birth. Along with using the "twinning" cloning
technique, IVF centers also use several other human cloning techniques
to asexually reproduce new living human embryos which are likewise
implanted and brought to birth.
Below are just two published research studies documenting (1) the
various kinds of human cloning techniques available to IVF "clinics",
and (2) an example of how it is already being done:
#1. Note that various cloning techniques have already been developed in
animal work for over 25 years, and are applicable to cloning human
beings. Here *several human cloning techniques* are mentioned,
including "hemicloning", "nuclear transfer", and "embryo splitting"
(twinning -- also called "blastomere separation, blastocyst splitting,
embryo multiplication, etc.):
*New techniques on embryo manipulation**.* Escriba MJ, Valbuena D,
Remohi J, Pellicer A, Simon C. (Spain)
For many years, experience has been accumulated on embryo and gamete
manipulation in livestock animals. *The present work is a review of
these techniques and their possible application in human embryology** in
specific cases*. It is possible to *manipulate gametes* at different
levels, producing *paternal or maternal haploid embryos (hemicloning)*,
using different techniques including *nuclear transfer.* At the
embryonic stage, considering practical, ethical and legal issues,
*techniques will be reviewed that include cloning and embryo splitting
at the cleavage stage, morula, or blastocyst stage*. [PubMed
Reference: PMID: 12062830]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12062830
#2. Note that *human cloning can be used for both "research" and for
"reproductive" purposes, e.g., for "infertility treatments"**.* In the
study below, the human *oocytes** *from *infertility patients in private
IVF clinics* were *cloned** *using "nuclear transfer". Since the
transfer was not done using a "somatic" cell, it is not properly defined
as "somatic cell nuclear transfer" (SCNT), but rather as "germ line cell
nuclear transfer" (GLCNT). Both somatic cells and germ line cells
(e.g., oocytes) are *diploid*, therefore nuclear transfer (cloning) can
be accomplished using either type of cell. The "product" is referred to
below as a "reconstructed oocyte", and it is "activated". That means
that upon activation *a new genetically unique living human being -- a
single-cell human embryo -- has been reproduced by means of human
cloning using the GLCNT technique**.* The term "reconstructed oocyte"
is a euphemism, or "pre-embryo substitute" for the single-cell *human
organism* formed by cloning. It is not just an "oocyte" any more. It
is a single-cell human being. I question how the *"informed consent"*
forms phrased it so that these infertility patients understood clearly
and unambiguously that their diploid oocytes had been used to asexually
reproduce their own cloned children?
Fertil Steril. 2003 Mar;79 Suppl 1:677-81
*Microfilament disruption is required for enucleation and nuclear
transfer in germinal vesicle but not metaphase II human oocytes**.**
*Tesarik J, Martinez F, Rienzi L, Ubaldi F, Iacobelli M, Mendoza C,
Greco E. (Spain)
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the usefulness of microfilament disruption
*before enucleation and nuclear transfer in human oocytes at different
stages of maturation*. DESIGN: Prospective experimental study. SETTING:
*Private clinics. PATIENT(S): Infertile couples undergoing assisted
reproduction attempts.* INTERVENTION(S): Oocyte enucleation and nuclear
transfer, *activation of reconstructed oocytes.* CONCLUSION(S):
Microfilament disruption before enucleation is required for germinal
vesicle oocytes but not for metaphase II oocytes. [PubMed Reference:
PMID: 12620476]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12620476
Indeed infertility researchers are eager to use any and all cloning
techniques for infertility "therapies", and thus they attempt to limit
the damage of any pending cloning legislation by narrowing the
definition of "cloning" to just SCNT. As admitted recently by Dr. Jamie
Grifo, a leading infertility researcher at New York University:
"Infertility researchers take pains to define cloning in the narrowest
terms, as a process that would use the nucleus from a single mature cell
and place it in a woman's egg from which the nucleus had been removed -
then jolting that hybrid cell to life with electricity. No sperm need
be involved, so the baby's genetic material would all come from just one
person. While many infertility specialists recoil at the prospect of
such 'solo' cloning, there are critical aspects of the process that
could help infertile couples. A number of infertility programs across
the country are working on treatments that might be called 'near-cloning'.
[Doctor Jamie Grifo, a leading infertility researcher at New York
University, as quoted in Stephen Smith, "Cloning bans could have impact
on infertility treatments", Jan. 9, 1998, at
http://www.geometry.net/detail/basic_i/infertility_family_science_page_no_3.html.]
Thus as Weissman redefines SCNT as just "stem cell research", many
infertility researchers /redefine all cloning techniques as just
"infertility treatments"/ involving "near-cloning"! We are /clearly/
talking about /"reproductive cloning"/ here, not just "infertility
treatments". Hello?
For a 31-page list of similar experiments already published and recorded
on PubMed, please see: Irving, "Scientific References, Human Genetic
Engineering (Including Cloning): Artificial Human Embryos, Oocytes,
Sperms, Chromosomes and Genes"* *(May 25, 2004), at:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/irv/irv_25scientificrefer1.html.
*III. /Partial/ list of IVF researchers doing reproductive cloning, and
examples of organizations whose policies support them*
Take a long hard look:
-- M.J. Escribá, D. Valbuena, J. Remohí, et al., "New Techniques on
Embryo Manipulation," /American Journal of Reproductive Immunology/ 55,
no 1 (May--June 2002): 149--161, available from
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12062830.
-- J.W. Gordon and F.H. Ruddle, "Integration and Stable Germ Line
Transmission of Genes Injected Into Mouse Pronuclei," /Science / 214,
no. 4526 (December 11, 1981): 1244--1246.
-- J. Hao, J. Pareja, N. Zaninovic, "P--1022: Derivation of Embryonic
Stem Cells From Individual 2-Cell Mouse Embryos: Model for Blastomere
Totipotency and Embryo Splitting," /Fertility and Sterility/ 86, no. 3
(September 2006): S513.
-- Erik Parens and Lori P. Knowles, "Reprogenetics and Public Policy:
Reflections and Recommendations," /The Hastings Center Report /(HCR)
Special supplement (July 1, 2003), available from
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/research/reprogenetics-public-policy.asp.
-- Karl Illmensee, Khalied Kaskar, and Panayiotis M. Zavos, "/In Vitro/
Blastocyst Development From Serially Split Mouse Embryos and Future
Implications for Human Assisted Reproductive Technologies," /Fertility
and Sterility/, 86, no. 4 (September 7, 2006a): 1112--1120, available
from http://www.fertstert.org/article/PIIS0015028206010776/abstract.
-- Karl Illmensee, Mike Levanduski, and Panayiotis M. Zavos,
"Evaluation of the Embryonic Preimplantation Potential of Human Adult
Somatic Cells Via an Embryo Interspecies Bioassay Using Bovine Oocytes,"
Fertility and Sterility 85 (April 2006b): 1248--1260, available from
http://www.fertstert.org/article/PIIS0015028205042032/abstract.
-- Y. Katagiri, T. Takeuchi, Q.V. Neri, et al., "Imprinted Gene
Expression in Cloned Blastocysts," /Fertility and Sterility/ 82
(September 2004): S10.
-- Yoko Kato, W.M. Rideout, K. Hilton, et al., "Developmental Potential
of Mouse Primordial Germ Cells," /Development /126, no. 9 (January 5,
1999): 1823--1832.
-- A. Liu, "Human Embryo Cloning Prohibited in Hong Kong," /Journal of
Assisted Reproductive Genetics /22, no. 11--12 (December 2005):
369--378, available from PubMed #16331533.
-- H.C.C. Liu, Z.Y. He, and Z. Rosenwaks, "Ovarian Tissue
Cryopreservation Did Not Compromise Its Potential to Produce Competent
Oocytes for Nuclear Transfer," /Fertility and Sterility/ 82 (September
2004): S308.
-- H. Liu, Z. He, W. Wang, et al., "Demiembryo Viability Can Be
Improved by Symmetric Embryo Splitting," /Fertility and Sterility/ 84
(September 2005a): S368.
-- H. Liu, Z. He, W. Wang, and Z. Rosenwaks, "Strategies for
Monozygotic Twinning by Embryo Splitting," /Fertility and Sterility/ 84
(September 2005b): S370.
-- Q.V. Neri et al., "Genomic Expressions in the Cloned Blastocyst,"
/Fertility and Sterility/ 82 (September 2004): S281.
-- Q.V. Neri et al., "Devising a Method to Reprogram Somatic Nuclei for
Nuclear Transplantation Procedures," /Fertility and Sterility/ 84
(September 2005): S400--401.
-- Q.V. Neri et al., "Gene Expression in ESCs Derived from Cloned
Blastocytes," /Fertility and Sterility/ 84 (September 2005): S384.
-- Laura A. Schieve, Sonja A. Rasmussen, Germaine M. Buck, et al., "Are
Children Born after Assisted Reproductive Technology at Increased Risk
for Adverse Health Outcomes?" /Obstetrics and Gynecology/ 103, no. 6,
(June 2004): 1154--1163, available from PubMed #15172847.
-- J. Tesarik, F. Martinez, L. Rienzi, et al., "Microfilament
Disruption Is Required for Enucleation and Nuclear Transfer in Germinal
Vesicle But Not Metaphase II Human Oocytes," /Fertility and Sterility/
79, Supplement 1 (March 2003): 677--681, available from PubMed # 12620476.
-- M.C. Valiotis, O. Lacham-Kaplan and A.O. Trounson, "Pronuclei
Formation and Embryo Cleavage Following Electrofusion of Round
Spermatids with Oocytes from the Mouse," /Proceedings of the Australian
Society for Reproductive Biology/ 25, (1993): 48.
-- Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, Committee on
the Basic Science Foundations of Medically Assisted Conception, /Report
of a Study and Workshop Papers, "Medically Assisted Conception: An
Agenda for Research,"/ (1989), available from
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=1433.
-- National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Science, Engineering, and
Public Policy, /Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive
Cloning: How Is Reproductive Cloning Done?/ (2002b), available from
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309076374/html/25.html.
-- American Fertility Society, Ethics Committee, "Ethical Considerations
of the New Reproductive Technologies," /Fertility and Sterility/ 46,
Supplement 1 (September1986): 27S, (name changed to American Society of
Reproductive Medicine in 1990s; still publish their scientific journal,
/Fertility and Sterility/; chairs of ethics committees included Richard
McCormick, S.J. and Clifford Grobstein).
-- American Medical Association, Council on Ethical and Judicial
Affairs, /CEJA Report /1--I--94, "Pre--Embryo Splitting" (1994),
available from
http://www.ama-assn.org/apps/pf_new/pf_online?f_n=browse&doc=policyfiles/HnE/E-2.145.HTM;
Endorses "pre-embryo splittting" as infertility treatment.
-- American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Ethics Committee Report,
"Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer," /Fertility and Sterility/ 74, no.
5 (November 2000): 873--876, available from
http://www.asrm.org/Media/Ethics/cloning.pdf.
-- American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Ethics Committee,
"Embryo Splitting for Infertility Treatment," /Fertility and Sterility/
82, Supplement 1 (September 2004): S256--7, available from PubMed #15363746.
-- German National Ethics Council, /Cloning for Reproductive Purposes
and Cloning for the Purposes of Biomedical Research/ (Berlin 2004),
available from
http://www.ethikrat.org/_english/publications/Opinion_Cloning.pdf.
-- Tremane Barr, "Analysis of the New Zealand Government's Proposals to
Amend the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill" (2003), available
from http://www.gefree.org.nz/cloning.htm.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/the-future-of-fertility-869729.html
Independent.co.uk
July 17, 2008
See www.nature.com
*The future of fertility*
100-year-old women giving birth; IVF cycles available for £50; gestation
in artificial wombs... it will all be possible in the next 30 years, say
the world's leading fertility experts
By Jeremy Laurance
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Thirty years ago the birth of Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube
baby, marked a genuine medical breakthrough -- one of the few that
deserves the title. Until then, the limited treatments on offer --
surgery and hormone therapy -- could help only some of the millions of
infertile couples devastated by the discovery that they were unable to
create a family.
On 25 July 1978 they learnt they had another option that could deliver a
baby -- and a future. Early fears about the safety and morality of the
procedure were swept aside in the rush to take advantage of it. Today,
some four million babies have been born by IVF worldwide. In Britain it
is estimated that every primary school has at least one IVF child.
Yet as quickly as it has solved problems, the new science of fertility
has created them. No area of medicine has seen more spectacular
advances, but no area has thrown up more ethical conundrums.
At the time of Louise Brown's birth, doctors were able to treat barely
half of the infertile couples -- one in seven of the population -- who
came to them for help. Surgery for blocked fallopian tubes and hormone
treatment to stimulate egg production were the only available treatments
for women. There was nothing available for men.
Today, in a special report published by the journal Nature, scientists
make some extraordinary predictions about the future of fertility
treatment. They forecast an end to infertility with the potential for
any person of any age from one to 100 to have children. In place of a
normal pregnancy, gestation might take place in an artificial womb, with
embryos selected and genetically manipulated to ensure they were free of
disease.
Low-cost IVF might be made available at £50 a cycle, putting it in reach
of some parts of the developing world. Cloned babies, though banned in
this country and many others, are likely to become a reality, scientists
say.
Thirty years ago these claims would have been treated as science
fiction. Today they seem entirely realistic, beside the advances we have
already seen. Who would have predicted in 1978 that male infertility
would be successfully treated by injecting individual sperm directly
into the egg? The technique, known as intra cytoplasmic sperm injection
(ICSI), first introduced in 1992, is now used in more than half of all
IVF treatments in the UK.
Who would have predicted that embryos would be selected, by sex or by
genetic markers for almost 200 diseases using the technique of
pre-implantation diagnosis, so that only healthy ones were replaced in
the womb?
Today we have saviour siblings (babies created to provide a sick older
sibling with matching tissue) and animal-human hybrids (created by
placing human cell nuclei into the eggs of cows or rabbits to create
embryos that are 99 per cent human and are used for research up to 14
days -- because of the shortage of human eggs).
The most exciting area is stem-cell research using embryos -- and
ordinary adult skin cells treated to behave like embryonic stem cells,
called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) -- from which it is hoped
new tissue can be grown for the treatment of conditions including
Alzheimer's , Parkinson's and similar conditions.
This is the new scientific frontier on which, 30 years on from Louise
Brown's birth, researchers now stand. Work on embryos which was
exclusively focused on developing new treatments for infertility has now
expanded to include the search for cures for disease. With an updated
Bill due to be passed into law later this year, which gives legal
sanction to these techniques, the stage is set for further advance --
and further controversy.
(See www.nature.com)
*Looking ahead: how the news may be made*
*100-year-old gives birth*
Davor Solter, a developmental biologist at the Institute of Medical
Biology in Singapore
I think IVF has gone about as far as it can. Next I expect that germ
cells -- sperm and eggs -- will be derived from induced pluripotent stem
(iPS) cells [cells that have the potential to develop into any of the
body's cell types]. It will be possible to make iPS cells from skin
cells, to make germ cells from these, and then combine them to make
human embryos. It means every person, regardless of age, will be able to
have children: newborn children could have children and 100-year-olds
could have children. It could easily happen in the next 30 years. I have
no idea if the technique will be used, but it means you could have
millions of gametes that could be combined at will. I have no idea what
kind of moral value or rights we would give to those embryos. We'll
probably go through the same agonising we did with IVF. It could be
terrible to begin with, but then it'll become a fact of life. Maybe 20
to 30 years from now we'll read that someone made 20,000 embryos and
studied their development, and we'll decide it's OK.
*Cost of IVF falls to £50*
Alan Trounson, an IVF pioneer and director of the California Institute
for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco
IVF was a gigantic step. We didn't realise it at the time; people didn't
think it would work that well. We never envisaged that it would expand
so dramatically around the world. Ethics keeps moving. What was once
seen as dangerous goes on to be seen as within the confines of
acceptable risk. Probably the major development in the field will come
from something we've never thought about. I think there will be a
further expansion of low-cost IVF, especially for women in developing
countries who experience social discrimination with infertility. If you
remove all the expensive stuff and use low-cost drugs (such as
clomiphene) and remove just one or two eggs, and only transfer one
embryo, it can be done for less than US$100 (£50).
*First cloned baby born*
Miodrag Stojkovic, stem-cell biologist at the Prince Philip Centre of
Investigation in Valencia, Spain
Will we see a cloned baby? It could happen any day because of a lack of
regulation [in some countries]. People are already trying to do
reproductive cloning. The only problem is getting hold of enough viable
human oocytes [eggs]. If we can make human oocytes from stem cells, it
might be easier. There is no medical need to clone a human. The future
is not about reproductive cloning, that's a very, very detrimental
technique.
*The artificial womb*
Scott Gelfand, director of the Ethics Centre at Oklahoma State
University in Stillwater
There is some research aiming to increase embryo survival. There are
also people who are working on the other end -- at the moment babies can
only survive from about 22 weeks. Someone could join these two advances
together and we could have complete ectogenesis [in which the foetus
develops outside the body in an artificial uterus]. I find it
interesting -- and scary. Even in terms of insurance: if it became
economically competitive with other forms of gestation, insurers might
compel a person to use it to avoid premature birth or foetal alcohol
syndrome. It's something that really needs to be talked about. Will it
happen? Dolly was a complete surprise to everybody...
*Parents can choose favourite embryo*
Susannah Baruch, director of reproductive genetics at the Genetics and
Public Policy Centre at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC
There's speculation that people will have designer babies, but I don't
think the data is there to support that. No single gene predicts
blondness or thinness or height or whatever the 'perfect baby' looks
like. You might find genetic contributors, but there are so many
environmental factors too. More likely is that you'll have a set of
embryos and you'll know every single thing about every gene in every
embryo. For example, one embryo will have three genes associated with
tallness, two for weakness, three for poor vision and some for disease;
and the second embryo will have some other set. None of us is a perfect
specimen and none of our embryos will be, either. I think you'll end up
with a lot of information but it's less obvious how useful that
information will be and how many parents will want it. Will people
choose IVF to get that genetic option? The old-fashioned way is cheaper
and more fun and that won't change in 30 years.
*Infertility is history*
Zev Rosenwaks, director of the Centre for Reproductive Medicine and
Infertility in New York
I see the technology going towards possible eradication of infertility
altogether. With nuclear-transfer technology or cell modification, I
think we'll be able to generate sperm and eggs for anybody.
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