>On 27 Aug 2000, at 1:26, Murray Charters wrote: > >> NIH Publishes Stem Cell Funding Guidelines >SNIP >> The new guidelines, however, which will be >> published in Friday's Federal Register, are certain to touch off another >> round of debate in Congress when it returns from its summer recess in 2 >> weeks. > >Hi All, >What is the FEDERAL REGISTER and >How Can the Public Use It ? >http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/whatisfr.html SNIPPED I was disturbed to see in the Dayton Daily News today the syndicated column by Mona Charen, which is headed "Administration takes end run around morality". Ms. Charen is a former speech writer for Pres. Reagan and frequent representatinve of the "conservative" viewpoint on the CNN political roundtable, "The Capital Gang" . She repeats the usual objections, and even answers Sid's question by saying that "because one set of people are cavalier about human life does not justify everyone else". She cites other sources under study such as cord blood,,placentas, and adult bone marrow cells. Since she apparently feels that the "leftover cells" should not be used in ANY way, one might wonder if she is also opposed to in vitro fertilization for infertile couples, which requires "extra" cells to be "left over"---what would she do with them, I wonder? I have no scanner, and the article is too long to type here--perhaps someone who sees it in another paper can reproduce it, and perhaps Sid can answer her---she can be reached at: Creator's Syndicate, 5777 W, Century Blvd., Suite 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 82/70/55 Oxford, Ohio <[log in to unmask]> on PDWebring at http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/genugten/flinterm.htm "Ask me about the CARE list for Caregivers of Parkinsonians ! " And visit the CARE webring at http://www.crosswinds.net/~caregivers/index.html