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jeanette, hear hear! once more you have voiced my thoughts more clearly than i could myself. Mr. Salzman may choose his diabetes over use of material that is to be destroyed anyway. personally i think that is wasting his own life too.. But that is his choice. For myself, i am tired of having parkinson's. I am tired of the continual encroachment on my life, on my usefulness and on the time that is available to me to be a real person.. i am wasting my day on longer and longer periods of dyskinesia alternating with bradikinesia and dystonia. I am requiring more and more help from others to keep up the appearances of normal living, thus 'wasting' their life too, time they could be giving to a more deserving cause than helping me wash a few dishes, or just get dressed. I am just an ordinary nameless member of humanity who happens to have pd, but i sure would appreciate it if some of those wasted embryos, earmarked for destruction could be detoured into providing me with a cure. And if i exist, there are others out there just like me. I feel a personal resentment, on behalf of all those potentially cured members of society,to t hose who take it on the mselves to decree that i am not entitled to a cure. Does my life not have at least as much worth as an anonymous clusters of cells on its way too destruction. Should that anonymous cluster of cells not be given the right to save my life - or at least improve its quality? Does anyone have the right to deprive that cell clusters of it s moment of glory? hilary Blue Leo Fuhr wrote: > > Those of us who could access the url for this article in "USA Today" read > an article that revealed opinions of not only Michael J. Fox and Mary Tyler > Moore in favor of allowing stem cell research funding to be approved; but > also, opinions of those opposed to such funding. An opponent, Pastor > Russell Saltzman of Ruskin Heights Lutheran Church in Kansas City, MO said, > "If a cure for diabetes and a host of other ailments require the production > and destruction of human embryos, then I beg you to consider the > possibility that some diseases are better than their cure." > > I have considered the possibility proposed by Saltzman, a diabetic, and my > conclusion is that in my own life, a cure for Parkinson's is much better > than living with the disease. I would like Saltzman and any other person > who opposes stem cell research to consider the possibility that cured of > Parkinson's, juvenile diabetes, Alzheimer's or Lou Gehrig's there are a > large mass of human beings who can have a better, more productive life > because congress decides that scrapping excess embryos from invitro > fertilization is as wasteful and inhumane as not donating organs of > deceased individuals to save and improve the lives of human recipients. > > Mr. Saltzman shouldn't decide what choices people with chronic illnesses > are allowed based on his own personal opinion. He has the right to speak > his opinion. I'm telling my congressmen/representatives that the > advantages to stem cell research are similar to any search for progress. > It's necessary to have a broad outlook of the possible future advantages. > > Jeanette Fuhr 49/47/44? > > ---------- > From: Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: USA Today: Stars urge stem cell research funding > Date: Friday, September 15, 2000 10:25 AM > > Stars urge stem cell research funding > http://usatoday.com/life/health/embryo/lhemb014.htm > > -- > Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD > Author: "Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease" > "Constipation and Parkinson's" -- audiocassette & guidebook > "Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy for Parkinson's > disease" > & Risk Assessment Tools > "Risk for malnutrition and bone fracture in Parkinson's > disease," > J Nutr Elderly. V18:3;1999. > http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/