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I don't get it. I just don't get it! Congressional Republicans just voted to spend another $50 billion to send young people to Iraq, where they face possible death or maiming, young people who eighteen years or so ago were embryonic cells themselves, but who have had umpteen million dollars spent on their education and welfare, not to mention military training, and who have established themselves as contributing members of society. Now these same politicians worry about the morality of using some discarded, unwanted, about to be destroyed frozen embryos that could save, rather than destroy, the lives of contributing members of society, old and young alike. How can someone arbitrarily decide that a cell which had been, legally and ethically, consigned to the incinerator, be judged more valuable than the life of a six-year-old with diabetes or of an 80-year-old with Alzheimers, or a 20-year-old who has just been diagnosed with Parkinsons? Where is the logic or the ethical standard? And it turns out that it is not even necessary to use embryonic cells: the donated egg cell can have its (haploid) nucleus replaced by a somatic (diploid) cell from the patient, bypassing the process of conception. I don't get it. I just don't get it! hilary blue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn