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On 4 Oct 00, at 12:28, Charles T. Meyer, M.D. wrote: > With all due respect IMHO your thinking is more "scary" than the > procedure being discussed here. Anything that could have helped that > child short of > taking the life of a fully formed human being should have been tried. Charlie and group, I really don't want to start a flame war about this. I am pro-life and I believe that once conception has occurred, a human embryo/fetus is a human being. I believe that there are certain situations where it is justified to take a human life (self-defense),; but to *create* a human life for the sake of sacrificing it, to me, is asking for a Hitlerian "slippery slope". It is, to me, not unlike "growing" human babies so that one could "harvest" organs for transplantation. I do not object to stem cell research. What I object to is the casual "discarding" of human beings. I do not oppose IVF, either, but the practice of "discarding" the embryos bothers the h*ll out of me for the reasons stated above. My opinions are strongly held (Charlie, we have debated this before, and I have not changed my mind). Let's leave them that way. Best, Bob Robert A. Fink, M. D., F.A.C.S. Professional Corporation 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, California 94704-2636 USA Phone: 510-849-2555 FAX: 510-849-2557 WWW: <http://www.dovecom.com/rafink> "Ex Tristitia Virtus"