Below please find the attachment Mr. Robin Elliott was trying to send a few
minutes ago.
Patricia
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June 22, 2001
Letters to the Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43 Street
New York, New York 10036
To the Editor:
It is troubling to learn that the Administration is still considering banning
scientific research using cells from human embryos ("Bush Leans Against
Support for Stem-Cell Research," June 22).
The politics of stem-cell research is qualitatively different from that of
other reproductive health issues, such as choice in abortion, that have
divided decent people over a generation. For most people who have thought
seriously about the issue, including many who consider themselves
conservatives, the issue is not a matter of "pro-choice" vs. "anti-choice,"
but "pro-life," in the truest, richest sense, vs. scientific censorship. As
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), a widely-respected conservative, courageously and
memorably put it just the other day, the research is "consistent with bedrock
pro-life, pro-family values." Even the source of such stem-cells -
by-products of the process of in vitro fertilization that some women depend
on to become pregnant -- is by its very definition "pro-life."
Those organizations like my own whose goal is to conquer disease, and those
millions of victims to whom our work is dedicated, continue to hope that the
President will leave federal funds free to support this vital area of
research - and perhaps go on to use the "bully pulpit" of his office to
educate those among his supporters who do not yet fully understand the issue.
Robin Anthony Elliott
Executive Director, The Parkinson's Disease Foundation
tel: 212-923-4792 (o)
212-662-1957 (h)
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
fax: 212-923-4778
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