Marsha, thank you for your response. NT or nuclear transfer, being asexual reproduction, should be OK for research since no sperm is involved. With my own DNA, whose life am I taking, surely not my own delayed twin as all proposed legislation worldwide bans reproductive cloning. IVF INVOLVES THE DESTRUCTION OF EMBRYOS which is the main argument of people who oppose ESCR. therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. For the past three decades extra embryos have been routinely discarded or have failed to implant. Do you recall the guy who showed his IVF twins to Congress and challenged them "which of my children would you kill" I understand there were 6 embryos involved in the production of these twins. Bush's Bioethics Committee has ruled IVF as sexual reproduction, but that does not do away with all those extra embryos nor does it make it so.. Bush lied about WMD's and is not smart enough to be a scientist. Most Nobel Laureattes support NT and ESCR as well as ASCR I wrote for California's Prop 71 which passed, as did New Jersey's law funding stem cell research. There is plenty of organized opposition to your ban on NT which you have convenently confused with reproductive cloning. How can you possibly oppose NT, ESCR and support IVF?. What about all those extra embryos Representative Stump? Don't make the mistake of thinking you know more about this subject than I do. Rayilyn Brown 18507 N. Windfall Dr. Surprise, AZ 85374 623-584-5869 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn