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K.F.wrote: "The ethics of the use or culturing of stem cells is hardly related to abortion or the freedom to choose." I couldn't agree more with this statement and have tried to make this point in every letter I've written to the paper, but just read today how new law just passed will protect fetuses by defining beginning of life as conception and will thereby affect stem cell research. Abortion has nothing to do with stem cell research, or SCNT therapeutic cloning, but anti-abortionists claim these kinds of research do amount to killing babies. What about all those thousands of extra embryos in in vitro clinics? Is Snowflakes" going to find uteruses to adopt all of them? It is my thought that if an embryo has a SS# and voting rights Roe v. Wade can more easily be overturned. Making abortion illegal probably won't affect us, (altho fetal tissue has been used to develop vaccines) but stem cell research does , and it is having a hard time gaining legitimacy and support because ant-abortionists want to push personhood back as far as possible. They haven't been called the "kotex police" for nothing. Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn