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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)