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At 08:41 AM 10/07/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>Bob, Can we at least agree that before 8 weeks gestation there is no >>scientific evidence that a fetus/embryo is a human being. You may believe >>and act although that the zygote is a human but there is no scientific >>evidence to support that notion and it is a matter of faith and/or >>intuition to for you. > >Charlie > > >Charles T. Meyer, M.D. >Middleton, WI >PD DX 12 years (at age 44) >Age 56 Has anyone bothered to read the post I put on late (here anyway) last night? The full text of his testimony is under the subject heading Testimony/Bill Olson: If you won't believe this Doctors testimony then I don't think anything anyone can say will make will make a difference. just me, Marjorie Testimony of Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D. President, American Society for Cell Biology To the Labor, Health & Human Services and Education Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee United States Senate September 14, 2000 Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee: I am Richard Hynes, Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where I am also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Director of the Center for Cancer Research. I am a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and of the Institute of Medicine. I am here today as President of the American Society for Cell Biology. The Society represents 10,000 basic biomedical researchers, most of whom work in our Nation's leading research universities and institutes. It is my great pleasure to appear before you to explain why our organization feels that it is so important that the full potential of human embryonic stem cell research be realized.