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Thank you, Greyling, for saying so clearly what's been on my mind for a long time. This blatant hypocrisy is what exposes all of Bush's piety as a callous, cynical play for votes. Rick McGirr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gentry, Greyling" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Rabbit/human chimeras - shock! shock! > Bio-ethics my ass. To date we've killed over 300,000 Iraqis, most of > them innocent civilians. These were living, breathing, thinking, feeling > humans. These were men, women, children, infants -- not Petri dishes > containing indistinct match head-sized clumps of cells. As I type, > thousands of our victims lie suffering and dying, some of them our own > kids for God's sake. Where's the Christian right's outrage over > America's ongoing policy of first strike mass murder? > > I don't want to hear one more word about the supposed unholiness of > embryonic stem cell research from Republicans and/or pseudo-Christians. > Everyone who does not actively oppose the illegal, immoral U.S. killing > machine has blood on his hands. Someone should try fusing some human > cells into all the bloodthirsty politicians and holy rollers. > > Please: check your own ethics first. If you're pro-war and pro-death > penalty, you've got a long way to go before you have the moral right to > oppose ESCR, doctor-assisted suicide or abortion. > > > ~ Greyling > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of rayilynlee > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:54 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Rabbit/human chimeras - shock! shock! > > News > > Fury over embyros > Number: 5803 Date: January > By Nick Weinberg > > The chairman of a bio-ethics think-tank has condemned proposals > for the creation of hybrid embryos - by fusing human cells with rabbit > eggs -as amounting to " British leadership in the depressing journey > towards the brave new world." Nigel Cameron, chairman of the Centre for > Bioethics and Public Policy (CBPP), has expressed deep concern over > plans by British scientists to create embryos by combining rabbit eggs > with human cells. > > Scientists, if granted consent, aim to fuse human cells with > rabbit eggs in a bid to further stem cell research into incurable > diseases and providing them with a plentiful supply of eggs to > experiment with. Dr Cameron said: "It's no surprise that the hottest > news today is that British scientists want to avoid the need for women's > eggs at all by using rabbits. "But this would neatly take us out of the > frying pan and into the fire. Creating human-rabbit hybrids for our > embryo experiments is worse." Claire Foster, Church of England Policy > Adviser on Science, Medicine, Technology and Environmental Issues, said: > "The Church is opposed to the creation of rabbit-human hybrid cloned > embryos." > > It follows the advice of the Church of Scotland's Society, > Religion and Technology Project that "such a technique would create an > 'embryo' so deformed that it could not be viable and inherently denies > its potential to develop." She added: "As the SRTP points out, 'the > admixture of human and animal at a basic cellular and developmental > level of the embryo breaches the distinction between human and animal in > a far more fundamental way than, for example, a sheep expressing a > single human gene in its milk, or having a functioning pig kidney inside > a human body'." The scientists, led by Professor Chris Shaw, a > neurologist and expert in motor neurone disease at King's College, > London, and Professor Ian Wilmot, creator of Dolly the sheep, claim > using rabbit eggs is necessary because of the practical and ethical > difficulty of obtaining women's eggs. > > This difficulty has been further exacerbated by a recent cloning > scandal involving a scientist in south Korea - Dr Hwang Woo-suk. Dr > Hwang made a landmark claim in 2004 that he had created a line of stem > cells from cloned human embryos. An investigation into his research > found that his claims and data were false. The chairman of the CBPP > said: "The unmasking of the Korean cloning fiasco represents a climax > for stem cell hype. "The fact that he [Dr Hwang] lied about his results, > and was believed by the science establishment, demonstrates the power of > wishful thinking." > > A US Christian group expressed its shock and horror last month > after one of the US leading research institutes, the Salk Institute in > California, created a man-mouse chimera. Scientists at the Salk > Institute created the man-mouse chimeras by injecting the brains of mice > with human embryonic stem cells obtained by killing live human embryos. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn