LETTER: Pro-Life Flat Earth Thinkers Lack Compassion

[Murray Charters <mcharters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LETTER: Pro-Life Flat Earth Thinkers Lack Compassion

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

The more people know about SCNT (somatic cell nuclear transfer) or therapeutic 
cloning, the more likely they are to
support it. But anti-abortionists ["STANEK: It's a mad, mad, mad, mad embryonic 
kill bill," May 4] want you to think a
blastocyst or a few pluripotent cells, invisible to the naked eye, are a human 
being. Even an unfertilized egg with
one's own DNA qualifies and probably individual sperm as well.

I think they want to bestow civil rights on cells so it will be easier to 
overturn Roe v. Wade. Meanwhile, while the
stall regarding stem cell research stymies progress, I am slowly becoming 
Christopher Reeve with my Parkinson's
Disease, albeit alone and without his financial resources. Does my life count 
for anything? Apparently not. It's just
my tough luck.

When I had ovarian cancer at age 43, I was not bitter or angry--after all, 
everything was done that could be done. But
not so with this emergence of anti-science flat earth thinkers which include 
the President and his minions.

This is a real crime against humanity by the ignorant, non-compassionate people 
in power.

Rayilyn Brown
Murrieta, California

SOURCE: The Illinois Leader, IL


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