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To: Bill who wrote (105539)	6/1/2005 9:03:12 AM
From: JeffA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

They'll recommend stem cells because it only kills humans.

To: Bill who wrote (105539)	6/2/2005 1:46:00 AM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

I don't know where PETA comes down on the stem cell debate. If you go to peta.com and click "contact us," you could write to them and find out, however. PETA doesn't support any live animal research. But the feeling behind this is based on compassion for animals and ending the situations where they suffer. I am unclear what suffering an embryo would endure. It doesn't have a functional brain and is unable to feel pain. The embryos that Bush is against using for stem cell research are about to be destroyed because the parents who created them cannot use them. It seems fair to me to let the parents decide whether to donate them or not. Those embryos are NEVER going to become children--they are slated for destruction. I imagine quite a few parents would want some good to come of them. Humans are indeed animals, and I can't imagine anyone at all supporting research on humans. Of course there was that scandal recently where poor children in Florida were being used as research subjects in studies of the harm of pesticides . . . I am unclear why you think animal rights organizations would go to so much trouble to protect animals and then support research on humans. Are you trying desperately to believe that PETA is evil or something? People who are for animal rights tend to be very compassionate in general from what I can tell. Why bother to save spiders' lives and then torture humans in labs? Does that make sense to you? It doesn't to me.