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Biotech / Medical : STEM -- StemCells, Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (260)	6/21/1999 3:47:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 805

So strange we live in a day and age where it is not controversial to take life by doing clearly evil things--manufacturing cigarettes comes to mind (the smoke a tar from which is known to cause cancer deaths) and yet stem cell research is so controversial. Of course, I can understand why these republicans rally around this flag--for them it is often a very clear issue--and they've little else in the way of political issues to draw on, or maybe they are not clever enough to excite their constituency with something a little more interesting. Forbes flat tax is about a hundred times more interesting than this old fetal cell debate. Leave the cell issue for the philosophers and scientists--I know that I do not know at which point a fetus attains a soul, I am not even sure many adults have souls--certainly not the adults that make and cell cigarettes. But I do think I understand the issues around regressive taxes, the scam of the capital gains tax cut and these sorts of issues. Politicians are such assholes, and they're boring.