[MHGinTN]

Given their past history with polling, I have no doubt that the polling is being done to instruct someone on how to obfuscate the truth and thus dupe the voting public into endorsing something they might otherwise reject if given the whole truth of the processes. I fault people like Orrin Hatch for this parsing to obfuscate. [I wonder why no one has ever asked Orrin (other than me in letters he won't answer) what the magical difference is between an alive embryo age human in the pipette being inserted into a woman's uterus and the alive embryo migrating down a woman's fallopian tube? He differentiates one from the other and asserts the one in the pipette isn't a human until he or she implants in the uterus. He's a politician, after all, just a deceiver by another name.]

[neverdem]

My purpose is just to keep abreast of stem cell science and legislation, whether it pertains to stem cells obtained from adults, umbilical cords or embryos, even though I have objections to using embryos.

They are not unqualified objections. What is supposed to be done with excess embryos from fertility clinics? I haven't heard a good answer yet. If the biological parents of those embryos give consent, what about problems with immunologic rejection or teratomas in therapeutic cloning?

This is one place where the ethics get "hairy", for lack of a better term. It also helps to understand why Catholic doctrine is against in vitro fertilization. But we already have a fait accompli.