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To: TimF who wrote (4610)	3/21/2005 6:24:50 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

GOP leader apologizes for Holocaust remarks 09:35 PM PST on Friday, March 18, 2005 Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. - The leader of Republicans in the state House of Representatives apologized Friday for remarks other Republicans made earlier in the week comparing embryonic stem-cell research to the Holocaust. Minority Leader Bruce Chandler, of Granger, says the references to the Holocaust were regarded by some as, in his words, "insensitive and inappropriate." However, one of the representatives who made such a comparison says he did not mean to disparage the mass murder of Jews in Hitler's Germany, and saw no reason to apologize personally. A bill endorsing embryonic stem cell research passed the House Tuesday night on a 59-to-36 vote, after an emotional debate. Representative Glenn Anderson, a Republican from Fall City, drew the most direct comparison to the Holocaust. He said: "Sixty years ago in Nazi Germany, it was state policy in order to perfect humanity it would be required to destroy humanity. And the medical experiments at Auschwitz were carried out for that explicit purpose. We all say, 'No, that's not us, that would never happen, that's not why we're doing this."' Representative Shay Schual-Berke, a Democrat from Normandy Park who sponsored the bill, quickly objected, and House Speaker Frank Chopp called a break to let both sides cool off. The bill passed after they returned. Embryonic stem cells come from human embryos created through in-vitro fertilization. The embryos are destroyed when stem cells are extracted. Researchers believe embryonic stem cell research may someday lead to cures for diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and diabetes. king5.com