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I would support ALL stem cell research if I were well, but it seems some people need a personal experience: WASHINGTON - Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., who has repeatedly authored bills that would ban abortion, once told a wheelchair-using young man she could never support the stem cell research that he believed might one day help him walk. But then her close friends had a baby with muscular dystrophy, her husband developed cancer and died, and her mother-in-law succumbed to dementia. The day after her mother-in-law's death in May, Emerson stood on the House floor and asked: "Do they not have as much right to life as that embryo that is going to be tossed away?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn