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hi all At 09:42 2001/04/16 -0700, Murray Charters wrote, in part: >...Then, in early March, the Christian Medical Association filed a suit >against HHS and NIH in order to halt funding of stem cell research >that uses discarded embryos, calling the guidelines, issued in >August 2000, "arbitrary and capricious" because they >"fundamentally undermine long-established state laws and ethical >norms that protect human life from medical experimentation...." i wonder what the CMA's position is on the discarding of the embryos (which has been a standard procedure for fertility clinics) i wonder what the CMA's position is on fertility clinics, period. i find the phrase "protect human life from medical experimentation' too vague for discussion of this specific topic: every time i take levodopa or selegiline or aspirin or i am subjecting myself to medical experimentation since the precise workings (causes and effects) of these meds is not known i also wonder if the terms "arbitrary and capricious" might be more appropriate to the actions of the CMA in re stem cell research janet janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky PD: 54/41/37 CD: 54/44/43 TEL: 613 256 8340 EMAIL: [log in to unmask] "a new voice" home page: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . "new voice news" latest posts: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nvnNET/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn