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I don't want to get into another battle about abortion on the list but I have to support Juao Paulo and Michel and others. Brandon, you have a strong faith and that is admirable but you have no right to interfere with my (my wife's) right to have an abortion. I recognize that is a complex issue which I would be willing to debate you off list. An embryo is not a person and cannot be given the same status as one. But the stopping the development of stem cell research and possibly "aborting" one of the greatest medical discoveries of modern times by preventing the results of conception in vitro to be used for its development is IMHO rates with the persecution of Gallileo, and the banning of (testing for competency regarding) the theory of evolution in Kansas and the Inquisition in their shortsightedness and narrow-mindedness. If you don't want to partake of the benefits of this research by all means don't But, don't stand in the way of others who because of different kind of faith believe differently than you and feel that the development of a cell line by taking a doomed embryo and using it to help others is both moral and just. Charlie Michel Margosis wrote: > Brandon Koontz wrote: > > > another opinion..... > > > Man is here for a reason, concentrate on that > > reason. Keep in mind the human condition is only temporary. > > keep in mind there is a GOD. > > Be that as it may, the problem rests mainly with the differences in the > interpretations of the words presumably coming from G-d. I do not > wish to impose my 'interpretations' nor should I abide your imposing > your 'interpretations', whatever they are. > Multiple cultures and religions have to coexist respectfully in this > country or it will go the way of Yugoslavia. > Michel Margosis -- ****************************************************************************************** Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin [log in to unmask] ******************************************************************************************