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Rayilyn, Although your open letter to President Bush and the U.S. Senate is very informative, we cannot publish it as an open letter. If you could change the format in the sense that you are notifying our readers that there is a petition available for anybody interested, along with the informative information you state, we would then consider it for publication. If you have any questions, please call me. Laurie Northrop 676-4315, Ext. 2635 [log in to unmask] on 11/04/2002 07:42:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] cc: Subject: Fwd: Four Year Moratorium on SCNT Dear Editor, how about a story in the paper about this outrage. It really does impact everyone. Rayilyn Brown 40697 Corte Albara Murrieta, CA 92562-5513 909-696-0908 [log in to unmask] Return-path: <[log in to unmask]> From: [log in to unmask] Full-name: RayilynLee Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:35:43 EST Subject: Four Year Moratorium on SCNT To: [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary ="part2_12e.1a76fe2e.2af8968f_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10582 I sent this Young Parkinson's Petition to about everyone i could. Perhaps you would like to visit the site at the bottom. FOUR MORE YEARS - WHAT AN OUTRAGE! To: President Bush and the U.S. Senate AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE U.S. SENATE AGAINST THE DECISION BY THE PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON BIOETHICS TO IMPOSE A FOUR YEAR MORATORIUM ON SOMATIC CELL NUCLEAR TRANSFER RESEARCH PETITION The signers of this petition are vehemently opposed to the U.S. government's attempt to place a moratorium on Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, or therapeutic cloning. We reject the findings issued by the President's Council on Bioethics, and in rebuttal offer statements made by Dr. Harold Varmus, the former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a nobel laureate. Dr. Varmus states that there is no fertilization of the egg by sperm, no implantation in the uterus and no pregnancy. He also says there is a profound distinction between cloning with the intent of making a human being and research cloning to get a handle on understanding and treating terrible diseases. Four years may not seem long to someone in good health, but it is an eternity for someone with an incurable disease like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, MS, ALS, cancer, diabetes, or spinal cord injury. A moratorium is a legislated death sentence for millions of living Americans. Scientists do many kinds of cloning every day, most of which is commonly accepted. Cloning has allowed scientists to develop powerful new drugs and to produce insulin and useful bacteria in the lab. Without embryonic cloning Dr. Salk would have never found a polio vaccine. It also allows researchers to track the origins of biological weapons, catch criminals, and free innocent people. There's a world of difference between cloning for medical research and cloning to produce children. Submitted by Young Onset Parkinson's Association www.yopa.org Sincerely, The Undersigned I signed this, Rayilyn, an old PWP with no life http://www.petitiononline.com/yopa2002/petition.html take a look at the YOung PARkinson's site ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn