FW: Okay, stem cells, but when?

[Kathy Ogden <x12345@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Kathy Ogden [mailto:x12345@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 3:48 PM
To: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
Subject: RE: Okay, stem cells, but when?


Jacob, I find it hard to understand that religious faith teaches life, love,
compassion, unselfish acts, etc. and that those who believe in this religion
so passionately, denounce life with death, love with hate, compassion with
coldness, and unselfish acts with selfishness.  This is how I see those who
oppose the "betterment" of "human life", not at the expense of "human life",
perhaps human tissue.  "Human life" does not consist of a bunch of cells
beginning to divide.  It's when you come into to this world all pink and
crying, maybe the child of a drug addict, maybe unwanted by a 13-year old
mother, maybe blind and deaf, maybe the anxiously awaited child of 2 loving
parents.  That's "human life", the sum total of intense suffering and
ecstatic joy.

P.S. I'm an optimist.  Technology is moving too fast for it to be 25 years.

Kathy

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From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network
[mailto:PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jacob M. Drollinger
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 11:00 AM
To: PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Okay, stem cells, but when?


Dear listfriends,

I have heard enough of the stem cell debate, and have formed my opinion.
Although, as a Christian, I am totally against the harvesting of these cells
from human embryos, as a sufferer of a Parkinson's like illness, that is and
always will be unreponsive to traditional P.D. meds, I am at a quandry. That
is: Support the advancements being made in stem cell research, and someday
possibly be cured, but risk losing my salvation; or give up all hope of ever
leading a normal life and wait for the eternal to take me home.
If there happens to develop some way around the ethical, moral, and
Christian implications surrounding this research,, e.g. adult stem cells,
umbilical cord cells, etc... I may consider treatment. Otherwise, I will not
support use of stem cells harvested from embryos.
Anyway, as I believe I have stated before, I truly expect to be dead and
gone before anything comes out of the current developments. How long are we
talking with this; 10, 15, 25 years? I would bet my life savings that it
will be more like 25 years, at which point I will be 55 years old. Quite
frankly, I don't expect or want to live that long; not with this stinking
illness.

Jacob

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