According to proponents of EPR, however, without the initial government requirement as a lever, voluntary programs are unlikely to succeed.

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In the years immediately following the initial successes of IVF, the U.S. government established a requirement that any proposed research on human fertilization, embryos, or the later fetal stage of development must be reviewed by an ethics advisory board before federal funds could be used to support it.

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