Re: Some wandering thoughts.........

[Guest guest]

Bill, I was very interested in the article fwd'd from WPOST.

I have no scientific learning; it has taken me a long time to even get a handle on all this stem cell stuff.............but this is what I come up with at this time.

Fertilizing the sperm and egg in a dish and never attaching the "blast" to the uterine (living) wall is not an embryo as most think of embryo. This is a therapeutic embryo??? Strict conservatives believe this has the same status as embryo in utero. How is this so far???

This is what the stem cell proponents want to use for research by making new ones and not being limited to the ones already on hand in sperm banks etc. (Bush way).

IF I understand Hatch's view, he "goes for it' even though he is against the death penalty, abortion, euthanasia, late term abortion or any other taking of life by artificial means. That is precisely my stand but I see no problem with research on two germs in a dish.

Now about the CREATOR. HE made it possible for this type of research to be done. It's out there. Like everything else in the universe, its up to mankind to use the knowledge ethically and judicially.

Barb in SWVA

[Guest guest]

Bill, Thanks for straighteningout my convoluted definitions ("blasta", germs , et al). I think I have the essential idea clear in my muddled mind. Ooops,.........I've got to stop saying that as I'm doing my darndest to convince all my family and acquaintances that dementia is NOT part of MSA!!

It is a very complex subject indeed.

Shalom BaRB IN VA