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Dear Ms. Snyder: I respect your struggle and pray for all who have to meet such difficult challenges. I don't think nor did I mean to imply that you are rationalizing. I just wanted to make sure that no one misunderstood the Church's teaching. God bless you and the best to you in the New Year. Rob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Snyder" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:41 AM Subject: Re: friends > i know that it is Church doctrine that life begins at the moment that > the sperm fertilizes the egg. that is precisely the reason for my not > mentioning this priest by name. but his thinking heartened me and made > me feel somewhat more strengthened to go on with my fight to change the > laws regarding embryonic stem cell research. you might call this > rationalizing and maybe that is what i am trying to do, but it is > something that I've got to support my own experience and my own > soul-searching and my own beliefs after years and years of struggle with > this issue and hours and hours of prayer. i think that i have finally > come to the best and the most difficult decision of my life. i'm not > trying to rewrite cannon law only to help thoughtful Christians make > some sense of the reasons that i believe the way i dol. > > -- > Joan Blessington Snyder 54/14 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm > “Hang tough……..no way through it but to do it.” > Chris in the Morning Northern Exposure > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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