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Yesterday I attended a large family freedom day rally at our state capitol. It was for freedom of families from the government as a family partner-member. Various groups and legislators added the usual anti-research rhetoric into their speeches. These speeches specifically included stem cell research as something to be banned. They are against any type of stem cell research saying all stem cells came from aborted fetuses. Cloned cells also came from aborted fetuses at one time. A friend asked me if I'd ever been offered stem cells (no) and she said that of course no one who valued human life would accept a stem cell transplant, or would ever want to benefit from research done on stem cells. I don't think I ever mentioned to all of you how I found this site. I was viewing an education reform issues site and I decided to connect to their links. From one of those links, an anti-abortion, anti-research, anti-cure-for-PD site I linked to this site. I don't recall the site I used to here on but I'm sure that with a little digging on the anti-ed-reform site I could locate it. I think people would be stunned to know just how much hatred of researchers and PWPs there is out there because of a push for a cure using stem cells. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Cordy <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:10 AM Subject: Seed Grants, Stem Cells,Anti abortion zealots You are right about the potential stem cells...you want to encourage...Congress. The stem cell guidelines are intended to make it possible for stem cell research to continue. ...it is the...legislators who weshould be attempting to persuade are those sitting on the fence. There are many anti abortion legislators who do not have a problem with stem cell research. Forget about the hard-core right to life zealots. NIH, through a very liberal interpretation of the law, continues to do stem cell research. Their interpretation is that it is within the law to conduct stem cell research, as long as they do not produce the embryo.