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Charlie, Thank you for stating, what I believe to be the most important argument, so eloquently. This research may be one of the most important of our time. Like all great achievements it is surrounded with controversy, and may be subject to misuse and abuse; but to cease research that can help so many is, IMHO, immoral. I also agree that no one has the right to make for me or prohibit me from making critical life decisions based on values and beliefs not my own. My father, especially as he got older, made it be known to all, ''don't think you can do my living for me, unless you can do my dying for me." It was perhaps the most valuable lesson he taught me. He died 8 years ago from cancer. He was a smoker (yes, it contributed to death), yet he never once blamed any one but himself for his deadly habit. Mom made sure he died the way he lived, on his own terms, at home with his family. With things like this research, we all need to keep in mind a sensitivity of others beliefs and not impose ours on anyone. Cathy "Charles T. Meyer, M.D." wrote: > 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] > ******************************************************************************************