Friends-- Has ANYONE answered Ray's posts about PGD and the fact that it
does not destroy embryos? If so I missed it---and the word, assuming he's
right, is NOT getting out. On "60Minutes" Sunday night there was a feature
about the stem cell controversy, which again (as always) spoke of the
"destruction of the embryo".
Does anyone know if this is a valid point we SHOULD BE MAKING in our
letters to legislators and GWBush????????
Ray Strand wrote in part:
> I have been keeping quiet but, could no longer
> contain myself. The Conservatives that use
> the rhetoric saying the "destruction" of an embryo
> is necessary to obtain stem cells is false.
> PGD may be more difficult, but, the blastomere
> is not destroyed and that is documented.
>
> A Conservative Web site with information about PGD
> says that the technique affects embryos negatively six percent
> of the time. I think it would the similar to the
> micromanipulation used with in vitro fertilization.
> So, others know of this technique.
>
> It puzzles me greatly that PGD has not come to the
> attention of the advisers to the President.
>
> I have written Senator Wellstone (Dem.) of Minnesota.
> He lost his father to Parkinsons.
> He supports stem cell research.
Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH
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