Dale, I don't have a story to share with you - all our support group members were diagnosed when they were over 30 - but I want to wish you luck and would be interested in your rep's response, since I'mm encountering the same problems with my senator. In addressing the problem of fetal research, in addition to PAN's response, I used the analogy of a person receiving a much-needed heart transplant from a murder victim. It doesn't mean he condones murder - but he is nevertheless grateful for the heart. We're not going to stop abortions because we reject putting the tissue to use, and that tissue is too readily available to cause someone to get an abortiom just for that reason. There are too many controls in place to make such a donation profitable financially. Pat Schark pine`