At 11:21 AM 4/8/2005, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Shawn writes:
>
> > if they are a dime a dozen then I don't understand your hand wringing over
> > the fact that the administration isn't going to fund any further
> > research.  I feel like I'm walking in a roundabout in this conversation
> > with you, it's all about misdirection.
>
>Either that, or a purposeful willingness not to listen.
>
>The core of the problem is that the federal granting agencies are prohibited
>by personal whims

hardly a personal whim, but a deeply held moral belief.  Pick something
that you deeply believe and then put yourself in the position to make a
decision to do something completely contrary to it.

>from funding the most obvious and therefore the most likely
>beneficial form of research. But, as you have written, none of these
>prohibitions apply to state and private research, thus the immediate
>result has been
>the intense effort that is currently ramping up in California, Massachussetts
>and elsewhere, something that I believe we can all agree upon is only to the
>good.*

*if* stem cells can do what they are claiming, and I believe we are way
early in the process to know that, then I think it's a great
thing.  However if the only way to get those stem cells is to destroy
embryos, then that's not a good thing as I'm one of those many people that
believe life begins at conception.  Now whatever happened to the discussion
of using umbilical cords for stem cells?  I seem to recall something about
that.

>Wirt Atmar
>
>*Don't write back and say that you don't agree with this statement either. I
>know you don't. It's a gentle poke in the ribs.
>
>


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
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