I don't know if you saw the press conference on cspan last night with Republican House members re: this subject...
There are quite a few doctors in the House (no pun intended), and they were NOT on Frist's side on this.
One of the doctor reps. is Michael Burgess who is an ob/gyn from here in north Texas...
He explained that when Bush made the call on the first bill back in 2001, about just using the 77 lines available, which Frist NOW says is down to 22...Frist also says that the 22 aren't good because of the use of mouse cells or something...
Well, according to Dr. Burgess, the scientists involved his, were concerned about the use of the mice cells, and they didn't want to waste all lines if it proved to be a problem, which is what Frist is saying NOW...
Burgess, said that since the scientists were worried about this, the held back 31 lines that are just frozen and not been used yet....so he said really there are 53 lines then.. and that since NOTHING good had happened yet, with the ESC, this was plenty of lines to use unles/until they find that these ESC are worthy for further FUNDING>...
Does that help you at all with your dilemma?
I missed that. Thanks for the continuing information.