Dear Ron---
You wrote in part--
>As an ordained clergyman, I am perplexed and dismayed that religion, which
>exists primarily to support, encourage and enhance life, would instead be
>used to inhibit research which could lead to the enhancement and prolonging
>of life, and yet is done in the name of standing up for life! Since when do
>we elevate the importance of potential life (stem cells) over that of
>actual, produced life - existing, breathing, walking, talking human beings?
>
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Thank you for your very educational post which sets the "religious
objections" to stem cell research in a different perspective than we
usually see. I learned a lot, and appreciate your taking the trouble to
post it. If you have no objection, I would like to share it with the
publisher whose remarks provoked my letter to the editor--OK?
Camilla Flintermann <[log in to unmask]>
on the web at http://www.geocities.com/camillahf/index.html
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