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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (124057)	1/28/2001 2:07:02 PM
From: ecommerceman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Johannes--You were absolutely right when you wrote: "If we take issue with the work of Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease, then we ought to complain against nature, or at least work to thwart the ill caused by these diseases." And that is precisely my point! Fetal tissue research is to to exactly that--thwart the ill caused by these diseases. Using the tissue of fetuses that would otherwise be discarded is not dehumanizing anyone or anything--it is simply at attempt to reduce human suffering, something that I believe is much more "pro-life" than the abstract (and incorrect) reasoning employed by pre-life advocates. _________________________ The analogy is false. Alzheimers and Parkinsons are not people, but diseases. So then when they “dehumanize” people they do it only in the sense that nature debilitates and then kills them, a thing nature will do regardless of our "feelings." If we take issue with the work of Alzheimers and Parkinsons, then we ought to complain against nature, or at least work to thwart the ill caused by these diseases. Contrariwise, abortion and its diabolical handmaiden “fetal tissue research” are dehumanization caused by humans, and as such are sins against humanity.