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Charlie, perhaps the best thing to do is to agree to disagree,
murph brown 57/9

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 15:32:10 -0500 "Charles T. Meyer, M.D."
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> Murph,
>
> As a Jew I take serious offense at your comparison of Jews in the
> Holocaust
> to aborted fetuses. They were people by any standards who loved and
> were
> loved. How can you compare a bunch of cells existing outside of the
> body (as
> is the case with IVF cells used in stem cell research) with a living
> breathing person.
>
> The Nazi's never made any pretense of the killing being moral, just
> expedient.  They hid their actions and knew well that they were
> committing
> atrocities.
>
> Are you saying that because your Morality  says something that it
> must be the
> truth for all of us?  That is  as dangerous as the Nazi's that you
> would
> protect us from emulating. As I have said many times before- It is
> the
> thinking that brought us the Crusades and the Inquisition not to
> mention
> abortion clinic bombings, and the shootings of kids in L.A and in
> the church
> in Texas.
>
> Murph,  I believe that you can do with your body whatever you want.
> Just
> please don't stand in the way of pregnant women doing what they
> want. And
> don't stand in the way of stem cell research.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> Merlin H Brown wrote:
>
> > As a 9 year PWP i couldn't disagree with you more. It is hard for
> me to
> > believe you or anyone else would totally set aside their moral
> values.
> > Would you become pregnant and then sacrifice the unborn baby to
> save a
> > life? I have a big heart and the thought of it is repugnant to me.
> >
> > We must be very careful in taking the path of aborted embryo use.
> This is
> > a path full of land mines. My prayer is that we will soon be able
> to
> > clone, a word I use with trepedation, human fetal cells.
> >
> > Morality is a relative term. In WW 2 , the nazis believed that it
> was
> > morally right to exterminate the jews. We, as a people, must be
> very
> > careful not to deviate from the morality given to us by the word
> of GOD.
> >
> > My prayer is that you will reconsider your position. Let's not
> sacrifice
> > one life so save another
> >
> > murph brown 57/9
>
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> Charles T. Meyer,  M.D.
> Middleton (Madison), Wisconsin
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