[Askel5]

I saved copies of the Federal Register entries on the redefining of fetus (at the pre-implantation stage) which neatly coincided -- almost collided -- with the NIH's withdrawing its guideline language re: "human embryos". Guess we can thank President Bush for forcing the moving finger of Science to hold the knot they're tying with a spanking new Term.

I'll try to remember to lob them in here.

Seems the He/She Inhuman have all things "Non-Person" nailed down tight. Along with the blood and guts of Constitutional Abortion, fleshing out at the microscopic level the ritual deicide ongoing as we chunks of measurably Self-Conscious matter evolve toward our hopeful, ... uh, for want of a better word ... humanitarian Utopia.

[JMJ333]

Don't be so hard on the prez...we know that he gave us a victory on the stem cell issue. After all, those stem cell lines are duplicates of the original source and that means they really aren't what they are--and justifies publically funding research on these fake lines. I understand completely that this isn't subtle encouragment to the private sector.

I wonder if that lab in Mass. that cloned a human being could qualify for federal aid? I can just see the press conference: "We're not going to fund research on new clones--but the ones that have already been cloned..."

If they harvest the clone for its stem cells, then duplicate the line, you will have the same justification that the republicans used the first time. No wonder the Pope said there are dark times ahead.