Date sent: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:06:04 EDT
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From: Jo Ann Coen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Forwarded article: Embryo is picked to try to save
sister's
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> Come on
> Bob - get real. You aren't even thinking. Jo Ann
Trouble is, Jo Ann, I *am* thinking. I am not blinded by a desire to
"do anything" regardless of what it does to our moral structure. I
wouldn't want my health to depend on someone else's death when I
myself had caused that death.
There is an old Yiddish word, "chutzpah". It roughly translates into
English as "nerve", but it is more than that. The definition of
"chutzpah" that was told to me was about the man who, while on trial
for the murder of his parents, asked for mercy because he was an
orphan.
I think that you have a lot of chutzpah trying to suggest that human
beings should be killed just so someone else can get stem cells for the
treatment of their illness. Yeah, I know that the current case did not
involve killing the baby; but *you* suggested having a baby just to
get some cells and "save your love". It is that kind of thinking that
makes those of us who question the stem cell issue concerned.
Best,
Bob
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