Which stem cells are people?

[rayilynlee <rayilynlee@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Editor:

Rep. Bob Stump's HB2221 places a big obstacle in the way of scientific 
research that could help millions of living, suffering people.

The opposition to therapeutic and reproductive cloning rests its case on 
the idea that nuclear transfer destroys embryos that contain 
undifferentiated cells that are people and reproductive cloning is just 
plain scary.

Any cell in your body, a skin cell, each neuron, each liver cell has, 
under the right circumstances the ability to become your clone.  The 
difference is the environment and the proteins that decorate your DNA 
strands.

Are we really going to reduce moral relevance to the presence or absence 
of certain proteins in a cell?
Let's debate and learn about this issue.

Rayilyn Brown
623-584-5869
18507 N. Windfall Dr.

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