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I fully agree with Greg. It is unfortunate that politics brings in the aspect of what sometimes is confused with bashing. We as a group should learn to call it for what it is. Total banning of stem cell research is unethical and discompassionate for the fellow human beings like us who are suffering. How come these do gooders cannot understand that? Often they talk like they are protecting the God! "By interfering with the embryonic stem cells, scientists want to play God!," they say. But, they are unwilling to ban human cloning now, upon which everybody agrees. They would rather wait and ban stem cell research completely (sometime next year) instead of banning the reproductive cloning now and letting the thereapeutic cloning research to proceed. This approach has given rise to crackpots like "somebody" implanting cloned human embryos on surragate mother. (The news I posted a couple of days ago!) Also there is some news on this issue in the current issue of the J Clinical Investigation. I some times wonder if this is done by design, so that when people do irresponsible things, then they can site this as an excuse to ban stem cell research completely! Raj ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn