Gerry I agree 100%. It is a personal moral question that should not be in the political arena. When there is a significant difference of opinion and the question in a religious- moral one it should be left up to each person's individual conscience not legislated. Thanks for the perspective of an enlightened, tolerant, ":pro life, Catholic woman". Your position needs to be heard. Charlie Gerry & Brig Haines wrote: > In a message dated 7/5/99 11:40:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > << > is because congress does not feel that money should be spent on fetal cell > research! > My congressman is pro-life and he feels that this is the hold up with the > money! > I explained to him that is really doesn't matter that the law states that > abortions are legal and when I pass away, I can donate my body to help save a > life or for research for the future. Now, again abortions are legal! If you > feel it is wrong then you need to change that law! Not the Udall bill! And > since it is legal, why can't some good come from something that is so > controversial? >> > This is exactly right. I can't seem to understand why they think any woman > would get pregnant, and have an abortion so it could be used for research. > Get real, sometimes I wonder about people........This is like an organ > transplant, as one doctor told us, 10 years ago, transplants were rare, now > they are much more common. Any clue here????? > Sorry, I am pro-life, catholic and a woman, lots of contradictions, right, > wrong, the abortion policy does not even belong in politics, it's a moral > question.... > Gerry -- ****************************************************************************************** Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin [log in to unmask] ******************************************************************************************