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Dolores After watching Senator Brownback on TV document with charts the grave threats to the world posed by *Scandinavia and the Netherlands because of their policies on gay marriage, (although the correlation between gays & rise in illegitmate births escapes me) perhaps I should be glad he and Mary Landrieu (sp) (D) LA are busy with this rather than pushing criminalization of SCNT. Maybe while Brownback and Santorum are busy blocking a vaccine for cervical cancer and the morning after pill the folks at Harvard will get lucky. Brownback's latest public antic is washing the feet of a departing female staffer to demonstrate his "humility". The worst thing he and his followers can do is criminalize ESCR and they are serious about doing just that. Think I need to abandon the idea that the federal government is ever going to do anything positive about public health when there is so much going on to subvert it. What's the Bush appointee's name, guy in NIH who blocks morning after pill and prescribes reading the bible for PMS? *I travelled extensively in Scandinavia in 1970's and 1980's and couldn't figure out how a people who once terrorized the world as Vikings could become so civilized, sane, responsible, efficient, peaceful and rational. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dolores Gross" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:03 AM Subject: Re: Sen. Frist and HR 810 > Ray, > Santorum is hurting in the Pa. polls and I think that the suggestion of a > compromise and a photo of him with Spector and coverage in the Phila. > Inquirer might be expected by the Santorum people to be of some help. I > don't recall the details now of the "compromise" but it was not in our > best interest. Spector is quoted in the article as saying his first > choice is HR 810. Santorum opposes ESCR. Spector's office is more > receptive to e-mails and calls from Pa. residents (which I'm not) so I > left a message for him in his capacity as head of the judiciary committee, > and got through to Frist's office after a couple of trys. Incidentally, I > don't think the democratic party candidate in Pa. is pro ESCR either. > Dolores > > rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dolores: > I called Frist's office yesterday asking what was up re HR 810 and was > told > that there were "other issues . . ..", you know, like gay marriage which > was > defeated today. HR810 as far as I know doesn't even contain cutting edge > research like SCNT, but leftover IVF embryos. Somebody correct and clarify > this info if I am wrong. What could be left to HR 810 after a compromise? > Santorum is as bad for our health as Brownback. > > Today I think it is flag burning in the Senate and in the House there is a > "pledge of allegiance" issue, which maybe somebody can explain. > > Maybe we should just die quietly or really rebel. The cruelest, most base > elements of the human race now determine our fates. > Ray > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dolores Gross" > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:36 AM > Subject: Sen. Frist and HR 810 > > >> During the debate today on a constitutional amendment re same-sex >> marriage >> Sen. Harry Reid pointed out that there are so many important issues which >> the majority leader is NOT allowing to be addressed by the senate, >> particularly stem cell research. Sen Frist responded by saying he's >> working on a compromise. This may be the compromise proposed by Sen Rick >> Santorum who opposes ESCR and to which Sen Arlen Spector said he would go >> with, if HR 810 is not acceptable, even though he prefers HR 810. The >> Santorum compromise which was reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer >> during >> the past 2 weeks is a smoke screen and not what the Parkinson community >> is >> looking for. >> >> Please phone Senators Frist and Spector and tell them no delays, no >> amendments - Bring HR 810 to the senate for a yes or no vote. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn