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Dear Keith Bea--I've been thinking about your post re: fetal tissue transplantation/abortion, and want to respond. I do appreciate the spirit and tone of your message, and certainly respect your right to believe as you do, and I expect that you would also respect the right of those who may differ on this or other issues, like some who have responded already. That said, I would comment as follows: 1. Research for a cure of PD includes MUCH more than fetal tissue research. 2. A woman having an abortion is prohibited from knowing or determining wheth er any use is made of the tissue exactly to avoid the kind of abuse we all would fear if this were not the case. 3.Abortion is legal--but no one is FORCED to have one, nor would anyone with PD be FORCED to have a fetal tissue transplant. 4. In a democracy, it seems inappropriate for persons who for themselves reject something (that is legal)to prevent others from having it,if it will help them. There are always things that our taxes pay for that we may person- ally object to, and we have every right to try to change laws we disagree with, but until that happens, others have a right to act on their different beliefs. I, for example, object to the proportion of my taxes that is used to pay for the excesses of the military, or to subsidize tobacco farmers, etc-- but so long as these things are legal I can only work to change the laws. 5. I agree that whether abortions are forbidden or are safe and legal, they 'll be performed, as always--and there seems to me to be something to be said for having some good come out of what is a tragic situation. I've tried to write in the spirit of your post, without contentiousness, only to suggest that to oppose the Udall bill, which is so much broader than this one issue, seems to me to be too bad, though as Voltaire said,"I will defend to the death your right"....to do so. Camilla Flintermann,CG for Peter 78/6+ Oxford,OH