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I was happy to learn that the list of support groups on my web site, www.ccastle.org/pd.hrml, was useful to the people backing Proposition 71 in California this past month. Proposition 71 will supply $300 million dollars a year toward the cause, and we read about additional monies coming in from Illinois, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and other states, along with private funding for research. So what if the U.S. Federal government doesn't back embryonic stem cell research? There's lots of money coming from state and private sources. Something's missing! Each of the states is going off in its own direction, possibly reinventing the wheel that other states have just invented. Not hat this is always bad, as often one line of investigation that is not mainstream will be the one to lead to a solution. But some coordination of the research will be most likely to bring the best results fastest - and at the least expense too - both in terms of money and also in terms of the number of embryos that need to be destroyed We need results! It would seem that under U.S. Federal government leadership the progress of embryonic stem cell research.in the U.S. would proceed faster and at less expense. The pragmatic approach is that directed research will be most likely to yield results. If the U. S. Federal government chooses to hide its head in the sand, not recognize that progress is being made here, and fail to give direction, then we wait longer for the needed results. With the elections over, it is clear that embryonic stem cell research will proceed, It will be done in California and New Jersey and Wisconsin and Illinois and Massachusetts, and in other states too.. There may be a question of right or wrong, but it has already appears to have been answered to the satisfaction of the electorate in these five states and elsewhere. The job will be done, and it is only a question of how quickly. I don't like the idea of U.S. Federal control of embryonic stem cell research - the words oversight, coordination, and sharing have a better ring. The goal should be the time-efficient and cost-efficient use of resources and manpower-efficient use of our best minds. But this can not happen with the U.S. Federal government restricting embryonic stem-cell development research as it does today. Art Visit the "Corner Castle" website at www.ccastle.org/jah.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn