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To: michael97123 who wrote (115557)	5/23/2005 11:29:44 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793903

I know it wont be easy but i would still maintain that its worth a try rather than toss those embryos donated by folks who had them in the first place to conceive. Just to repeat, it is already the couple's choice to donate the embryos for adoption or for stem cell research or for cryogenic research rather than thawing them. I know that there will be abuses but that's a reason from a comprehensive solution not a ban on stem cell for his limited class of embryos. In fact researchers are probably using all these that are available because the cost to them is so low. The real issue is whether federal funding should be made available to pay the $20k to extract the eggs in the first place and create embryos intended for harvest for stem cell research. These embryo farms were already underway in Massachusetts with federal funding before the federal funding ban was put into place.