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Was the following letter sent onto senator?. You have explained it very well. Emily ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:48 PM Subject: therapeutic cloning > Senator Burns, > Please support therapeutic cloning for the sake of those suffering Parkinson's disease and other disorders. The suffering is endless. Costs to taxpayers to support disability is senseless when a cure is at hand. > > Realize that: "SCNT (aka `Therapeutic Cloning') is about saving and > improving lives. It is fundamentally different from human reproductive > cloning. In SCNT, the nucleus of a donor's unfertilized egg is removed > and replaced with the nucleus of a patient's own > somatic cells, like a skin, heart, or nerve cells. The goal of SCNT is to > develop stem cells that will not be rejected or destroyed by the patient's > immune system. NO sperm is used in this procedure. The unfertilized cells > are not transplanted into a womb but rather are stored in a petri dish to > become a source of stem cells that can be used to treat life-threatening > medical conditions. SCNT aims to treat or cure patients by creating > tailor-made, genetically identical cells that their bodies won't reject. In > other words, SCNT could allow patients to be cured using their own DNA. > > "There are many different kinds of cloning, most of which are commonly used > medical tools. Cloning simply means making copies of a single molecule, > cell, virus or bacterium. Over the last decade, various types of cloning > have allowed scientists and researchers to: Develop powerful new drugs; > Produce insulin and useful bacteria in the lab; Catch criminals and free > innocent people. I, too, along with patient advocacy groups and leading > scientists, including the National Academy of Sciences, and a huge majority > of the American people oppose reproductive cloning, which aims to create > human beings by cloning human embryos. > > "But please, don't get the SCNT confused with human reproductive cloning." > > Patricia Lewis > PO Box 67 - Boulder MT 59632 USA > 406/225-4259 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn