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>To: [log in to unmask] >From: [log in to unmask] (Marjorie Moorefield) >Subject: My answer to Gaylon > > Gee Gaylon, I certainly hope no one else misinterprets what I said as much >as you have!!! I CERTAINLY didn't want to send anyone "over the edge". >I seem to have a DIVINE GIFT for deliberately upsetting people, but >when I do, there is NEVER any doubt that it is deliberate. In this case >it wasn't meant that way at all. >My post was in answer to Bruce Warr telling of his 15 year old daughter >coming home from school with the "incorrect" story going around about the >"Udall Bill". > >Most people don't realize that in the 1950's fetal tissue was used in >the making of Polio vaccines. I don't think even those people standing >in the rain would like to go back to having Polio!! >Of course, they were not abortion tissues, but still fetal tissue. >Fetal tissue experiments have been going on, especially at NIH, >for many years. > > The sheer number of persons standing out there would >have gotten anyone's attention, but standing in that kind of weather, >exposing their children & babies to colds, or worse, made me (the ultimate Mother-Grandmother figure) think that they were putting THEIR children at risk. > To me is showed no common sense!! > Obviously they have not made an impression on the >elected officials, as their House of Rep. is the same as mine, Peter >Deutch, and he signed on as a sponsor of the Udall Bill long ago. > >Yes, I remember the Viet Nam War quite well. In fact, I remember >WW2, the Korean War and the Viet Nam Wars quite well. >My Husband was one of those Lifers who stayed in for all of them. >If you think it was easy staying home caring for 4 small children >while he had those "remote tours of duty" for a year at a time, >you are WRONG!!!! It is men of my husbands >generation we have to thank for not speaking Japanese or German >in the U.S.A. As I recall, I don't think the demonstrators stopped >the Viet Nam War one day sooner. Now, men of my husbands >age are the very ones suffering from PD & are the ones to gain >the most from a cure, no matter what it takes to do it. > Is this to be their reward for "Services Rendered"? >Sorry, but ------???? > >IMOHO, I don't believe the "Udall Bill" will be passed as it is written. >It's all politics, I'll grant you, but Congress >seems to want to keep the research in the NIH. I don't think that "Fetal >Implants" is really the issue. It's just something easy to blame. > >Your plan looks good on paper,Gaylon, but it is impractical in my opinion, >since it would just scatter our forces. Unfortunately not everyone would agree to it. > If we want to be out from under the NIH, we should donate individually > to our Parkinson's Foundations & earmark it for new research centers. >The way I understand it, the Parkinson's Foundations have given funds >to individual research, for quite some time. > >It's too bad there isn't one simple solution to this--well, I guess there >really is--If someone would come up with a cure for PD. >I apologize for upsetting you, or anyone else ,Gaylon, as that certainly >wasn't my intention. > >As Ever, >Marjorie Moorefield >just another librarian (with PD) > > >