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--------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Stem-Cell Research Is Truly 'Pro-Life' Stem-Cell Research Is Truly 'Pro-Life' To the Editor: It is troubling that the Bush administration is still considering banning scientific research using cells from human embryos (news article, June 22). The politics of stem-cell research is qualitatively different from that of other reproductive health issues, like abortion, that have divided decent people for more than a generation. It is not a matter of "pro-choice" versus "anti-choice," but of "pro-life" (in the truest, richest sense) versus scientific censorship. As Senator Orrin G. Hatch, a conservative Republican from Utah, courageously put it, the research is "consistent with bedrock pro-life, pro-family values." Even the source of the stem cells — they are byproducts of the in vitro fertilization process that some women depend on to become pregnant — is by its very definition "pro-life." President Bush should leave federal funds free to support this vital research. ROBIN ANTHONY ELLIOTT Executive Director Parkinson's Disease Foundation New York, June 22, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/23/opinion/L23STEM.html?ex=994311936&ei=1& en=0d0bc7b46614d166 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn