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Another thing I would add is the argument that taxpayer money shouldn't be used for research people believe is unethical. Well, my money goes to a war I don't support where thousands of living people are blown up. Also, if you think cures are expensive, so is disease. Somebody on TV yesterday calculated how many baby boomers were going to get Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc. If I could I would leave the US for Australia. I really like Sydney and have heard the Aussies are more friendly to science, but don't know for sure. Americans are not very bright. Our science education deficit is showing itself. I almost have to agree with Bismarck's statement of over a hundred years ago that "God looks after fools, drunkards, and the USA." But I don't think our luck will last forever. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hilary Blue" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:22 PM Subject: stem cell vote - and the 'nuclear option' >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn