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Posted on 12/18/2003 12:03:02 PM PST by MHGinTN
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Much has been made in the media and on the Congressional Record of the so-called promise of embryonic stem cells and cloning for therapeutic applications. Major media have reported this field of stories with a clear bias that dehumanizes the individual human embryo as not yet a human being or not yet human enough, not individuated enough at embryo age. Ironically, ALL the experts started their individual human life as a single totipotent cell, called a zygote. Eliminate the zygotic age of the individual human life and the lifetime that is already started will be no more because it is from that first totipotent age of the individual that all stem cell cascades derive!
It is unsettling to realize that events and discoveries at this time in our nations history tend to separate We The People from the decision making processes, mainly because the average citizen hasnt a clue just what ESCR and therapeutic cloning seek to do and with what these technologies deal. There are two bills developing in the United States Senate that address human cloning; one bill would ban all human cloning, while the other bill would ban human reproductive cloning yet make it legal to do human cloning for research purposes. But all human cloning is reproductive, at the start.
To understand the differences in cloning bills requires some basic understanding of the biological processes. The information is not so abstract that the average citizen cannot grasp it, if its presented in clear terms and facts are not hidden via technical flourishes.
Ask yourself, If our Senators were debating whether to knowingly fund research into a doomsday bomb that if ignited would deplete all the oxygen on the planet, would We The People approve of that? Doubtful.
Human cloning holds dangerous potential for the human speciesover timeyet average voting citizens have little or no idea what are the details of cloning, details of the different bills, and details of future impact upon our civilization. Why?
Because the facts have been kept in the abstract by scientists wanting to do the research and elected representatives in agreement with those scientists.
There is vast wealth to be gained by those who learn to harness the science, as long as the people do not object to the methodologies. But how can the people object if they dont understand what it is that the scientists want to do? This author believes there are alternate means to these miracles of cell technology, means that do not cannibalize individual humans at their embryo age.
Gradual application of technologies not well understood by the voting populace leads down slippery slopes that arrive at horrific ends We The People would likely avoid, if we but understood the real destiny of the slippery slopes.
This nation need not take a slide along a new slippery slope that includes in vitro fertilization and embryonic stem cell harvesting, and foretells human cloning for body parts. But to avoid the slide, We The People must have basic facts with which to discuss the honest perils and with which to discern the half-truths and outright lies already sullying the national discussion.
Linked to this posting is a manuscript written for the lay reader, designed to explain embryonic stem cells, and cloning. We have tried to keep the words and concepts intelligible, using asides from experts, using word pictures that help to visualize that which is usually seen only through a microscope, and using simple interactive sketching exercises (many of the net sources cited have excellent illustrations the reader may access, also, such as http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/structure.html and also illustrations found at the Human Genome Project website of NIH).
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KEYWORDS: cloning; stemcells
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To: Old Student
Personally, I believe the Soul has three aspects: will, emotion, mind (reasoning capacity). To me, when the first mitosis occurs it is evidence that the will of a newly arrived soul is operating, so I would assert the soul is present at least when cell division begins. Those first differentiations of blastomeres are a sign the new lifetime is working toward survival, preparing to build the first organ for survival, the placenta. Most folks don't realize the embryo builds the placenta ... not built by the mother's body.
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posted on
12/21/2003 12:55:35 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
That's the nature of the soul, but the human soul also has the spirit component not found in other animals. It is that spirit component which extends 'sacred' to human life, even at the earliest age.
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posted on
12/21/2003 5:22:57 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: birdwoman
ping ... if you're so inclined
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12/21/2003 6:57:44 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: PetroniusMaximus
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12/21/2003 7:33:15 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: biblewonk; conservonator
ping
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posted on
12/22/2003 10:30:21 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: xzins; The Grammarian
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posted on
12/23/2003 8:17:44 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: Cathryn Crawford
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12/23/2003 8:37:10 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: rbessenger
PING ... here we go!
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posted on
12/23/2003 9:54:43 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: Jeff Head
ping ... in preparation for the coming 'clone war'
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posted on
12/23/2003 11:01:49 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: mhking
Ping .. for preparations
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posted on
12/23/2003 11:43:58 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
Thanks so much for offering this.
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posted on
12/23/2003 11:46:18 AM PST
by
ladyinred
(If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door!)
To: fourhorsemen
What an interesting question. I have never even considered that concept. I will really have to think about this one.
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posted on
12/23/2003 11:51:09 AM PST
by
ladyinred
(If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door!)
To: ladyinred
I just hope it's of some use to those not 'up on the science'. And thank you for reading it.
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posted on
12/23/2003 11:56:54 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: fourhorsemen
what happens in the after life to the fertilized egg that fails to bond to the uterine wall?
That's where all alien creatures come from.LOL
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posted on
12/23/2003 11:59:14 AM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
To: B4Ranch
Is this an amusing topic, for you?
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posted on
12/26/2003 4:45:02 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
Abortion nor cloning is not humorous because we are messing around with an area that we shouldn't, however what happens in the our after life isn't spoken of by people who have been there. So, a bit of humor isn't out of place because we don't know the facts.
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posted on
12/26/2003 7:27:20 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
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To: B4Ranch
Opinion differ.
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posted on
12/26/2003 10:13:11 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
Of course.
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posted on
12/26/2003 11:18:35 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
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To: Ethan_Allen; RaceBannon
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posted on
12/28/2003 2:31:21 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
. for later .
hiya MHG!
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posted on
12/30/2003 6:56:09 PM PST
by
kimmie7
(I need more time, more coffee, and more bandwidth!)
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