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Health, Education, and Welfare issued a report on in vitro fertilization, but the panel never dealt with the freezing of embryos. In 1982, then Rep. Albert Gore, Jr., (D.-Tenn.) headed a House subcommittee that held hearings on frozen embryo research but came to no conclusions. Consequently, note Grobstein and his fellow researchers at the Univer- sity of California, no firm federal guidelines were ever set. In addition, "a de facto ban on federal support...