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>From: [log in to unmask] (Marjorie Moorefield)
>Subject: My answer to Gaylon
>
> Gee Gaylon, I certainly hope no one else misinterprets what I said as much
>as you have!!!  I CERTAINLY  didn't want to send anyone "over the edge".
>I seem to have a DIVINE GIFT for deliberately upsetting people, but
>when I do, there is NEVER any doubt that it is deliberate. In this case
>it wasn't meant that way at all.
>My post was in answer to Bruce Warr telling of his 15 year old daughter
>coming home from school with the "incorrect" story going around about the
>"Udall Bill".
>
>Most people don't realize that in the 1950's fetal tissue was used in
>the making of Polio vaccines.  I don't think even those people standing
>in the rain would like to go back to having Polio!!
>Of course, they were not abortion tissues, but still fetal tissue.
>Fetal tissue experiments have been going on, especially at NIH,
>for many years.
>
> The sheer number of persons standing out there would
>have gotten anyone's attention, but standing in that kind of weather,
>exposing their children & babies to colds, or worse, made me (the ultimate
Mother-Grandmother figure) think that they were putting THEIR children at risk.
> To me is showed no common sense!!
>  Obviously they have not made an impression on the
>elected officials, as their House of Rep. is the same as mine, Peter
>Deutch, and he signed on as a sponsor of the Udall Bill long ago.
>
>Yes, I remember the Viet Nam War quite well.  In fact, I remember
>WW2, the Korean War and the Viet Nam Wars quite well.
>My Husband was one of those Lifers who stayed in for all of them.
>If you think it was easy staying home caring for 4 small children
>while he had those "remote tours of duty" for a year at a time,
>you are WRONG!!!!   It is men of my husbands
>generation we have to thank for not speaking Japanese or German
>in the U.S.A.  As I recall, I don't think the demonstrators stopped
>the Viet Nam War one day sooner. Now, men of my husbands
>age are the very ones suffering from PD & are the ones to gain
>the most from a cure, no matter what it takes to do it.
>  Is this to be their reward for "Services Rendered"?
>Sorry, but ------????
>
>IMOHO,  I don't believe  the "Udall Bill"  will be passed as it is written.
>It's all politics, I'll grant you, but Congress
>seems to want to keep the research in the NIH. I don't think that "Fetal
>Implants" is really the issue. It's just something easy to blame.
>
>Your plan looks good on paper,Gaylon, but it is impractical in my opinion,
>since it would just scatter our forces. Unfortunately not everyone would
agree to it.
>  If we want to be out from under the NIH, we should  donate individually
> to our Parkinson's Foundations & earmark it for new research centers.
>The way I understand it, the Parkinson's Foundations have given funds
>to individual research, for quite some time.
>
>It's too bad there isn't one simple solution to this--well, I guess there
>really is--If someone would come up with a cure for PD.
>I apologize for upsetting you, or anyone else ,Gaylon, as that certainly
>wasn't my intention.
>
>As Ever,
>Marjorie Moorefield
>just another librarian (with PD)
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