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> 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. Stem cells are taken from a very young embryo ( about 5 days old.) A fetus is usually called that when it differentiates. Before that, all vertebrate embryos are similar ( dogs , horses, apes , humans, etchave a similar embryo). It is only later that the embryo can only develop into a human and is called a fetus. Maryse cg John 75,15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn