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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (5726)	2/8/2003 9:16:34 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12247

Haven't they heard of cloning? Just grow a new kidney. That's much better than messing with somebody else's incompatible one. It would also avoid the need for Mercier to be damaged and put at risk. <Ex - Mich. Teacher Gives Kidney to Student February 8, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 2:57 p.m. ET ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Ron Mercier used to give Amy McCloud hall passes in school and advice on the softball field. Now, he's given her a kidney. Mercier, 68, who was McCloud's coach and senior class adviser at Milan High School, ran into the woman's father and stepmother last year. He learned that McCloud, now 35, was spending four hours a day, three days a week on a dialysis machine as she waited for a kidney transplant. Relatives who had offered to help McCloud either weren't compatible or were excluded because of medical history.... > They are so last century. Mqurice