Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts/afterlife

2007-04-13 Thread Dan T
Dave, I think we will be reacquainted with many who have gone before us and I also think we will experience intense joy. My opinion, and it is based on my faith, life experiences and of others stories about experiencing it and I do know that is very controversial. DT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-11 Thread LINDA FERRELL
Dave, Corey June is a beautiful little girl & big sister. She also looks a lot like her Bampa. Lindaf

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Jim Lubin
I would not give my own life for that reason. Guess that's why it's more difficult for me to so easily justify using an embryonic life for that reason. I believe in an afterlife but I'm not in any hurry to see it, even if it would benefit others. I also have no intention of signing up for any

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread LINDA FERRELL
I would give my life for a cure of others to wipe out SCI. Lindaf

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Oconnelldb
I like to think I would make the sacrifice of my frustrating existence here if it would mean that no one would ever have to put up with SCI like I have. It becomes even easier when I think of my _grand daughter _ (http://ocgrands.com/cj/index.html) - I'd make the gift for her in a heart

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Dietz
gt; ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; quad-list@eskimo.com<mailto:quad-list@eskimo.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:34 AM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts You wouldn’t be alone Bobbie I’d have no problem leaving this world knowing that I helped billions from

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Tim Thompson
Hi Jim, Those "indoctrinated" by the public school system after the mid 70's are clueless to the fine distinction concerning "morality". They grew up in a world of ever increasing encroachments by the left regarding abortion etc. A woman socioligist warned of the loss of moral distinctions to futu

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Oconnelldb
no deity at all...? really..? you know someone that believes all of creation and life and the whole universe is just a chance happening and that after we die physically, there is nothingness for us..? i find that pretty hard to comprehend. if no one had a deity to use as an excuse

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Angie Novak
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Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Angie Novak
a commie. nuff said.. john -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts .AOLPlainTextBody { FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdan

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread RollinOn
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts Would you volunteer your life for the other 6 billion of us in the world? Yep, in a heart beat. If I had THAT choice and not live another day as a quad? Bobbie _ See what's free at HYPERLINK "http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF0002

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-10 Thread Angie Novak
Not everyone believes in the same deity, anyway. Not everyone believes in any deity or deities. Take the mythology out of the equation, and a lot more things would be possible, I think. I'm not knocking anyone's beliefs or ideas about religion, I wouldn't do that, but look at how much hypocri

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
Human life must be sacred, look how much we spend to destroy it! john -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts If human life is not sacred then what the heck is? If a human acts as a

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
one egg the price would drop a lot. If they aren't paying for storage then the other embryos are probably in a local sewer. john -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 2:01 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Dan T
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Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
ge- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts I hope you're kidding. Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, yes, yes! We must not destroy all those useless fertilized eggs. We should l

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
I think the excess eggs should be served at communion. Like the caviar of Christ or something. Maybe add a caudacill from Mary -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts So what do you

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
ill people that kill to stop the killing of others, why haven't we killed G. W. Bush? john -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:00 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts Human life is sacred and an embryo is the initia

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
john -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:50 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts Glad to see you partly agree with me Dan. (yes I realize you were being sarcastic) I don't agree with the part

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Dan
ittled >away. Its just wrong! We are in wheelchairs to punish our souls?! > >john > > >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: quad-list@eskimo.com >Sent: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 9:15 PM >Subject: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts > > > >SIX STEM CEL

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread delimited4
D] To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 9:15 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts SIX STEM CELL FACTS The public discussion of human embryo research has too often lacked intellectual honesty, which has only compounded the confusion of an issue of great scientific and moral complexity

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Bobbie299
Would you volunteer your life for the other 6 billion of us in the world? Yep, in a heart beat. If I had THAT choice and not live another day as a quad? Bobbie ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Lubin
No Dave I would not give my life to improve everyone else's life. People can live a long life with SCI and Parkensons. It may not always be pleasant but it is a life. If people can't handle it they can freely chose to take their own life. Everyone only gets one. I would not want the cure for m

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Oconnelldb
but science and research could save the suffering of millions and they’re the killers! Mark Jackson RollinOn From: Jim Lubin [_ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:11 PM To: Dan; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cel

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Oconnelldb
All this sure was easier (philosophically anyway) in the old days when playing with God's work wasn't possible. All medicine - treatments - procedures - are fiddling with HIS design and work. It's pretty tough to 'half-learn' anything once you get started. HE didn't make us with the

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Oconnelldb
boy, I sure wish we could get a gimp into the white house. I thought for sure superman could get things going. Dave In a message dated 4/7/2007 6:18:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SIX STEM CELL FACTS The public discussion of human embryo research h

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Dan
At 07:54 PM 4/8/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my response: >At 05:50 PM 4/8/2007, Dan wrote: >>At 05:29 PM 4/8/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my >>response: >> >>>Risking a life and taking a chance is not the same as willfully terminating >>>a life. I

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Angie Novak
Why wouldn't some people want to help people? Who says they wouldn't be helping people that they cared about? I can see motivation. I don't think everyone is all about money. Put all the negative cost ideas aside, why wouldn't you want the chance? Why wouldn't you want future generations to

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread Angie Novak
That's why they wait to see if you're going to be brain dead. No consciousness. No consciousness = no life. Consciousness = some type of life. They wanted my organs, too. They want everybody's organs. Jim Lubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No difference by your definition of life, having

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-09 Thread RollinOn
because the dirty work has already been done, unless you don’t see it as life. Mark Jackson RollinOn _ From: Jim Lubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 7:30 PM To: RollinOn; 'Dan'; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Dan T
If it's not me getting murdered in the inner city why should I care? Dan T. Angie Novak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What if your cousin's son had a disease or suffered a spinal cord injury? Wouldn't you want any treatment possible to be available to him to stop his agony? I know I would for my

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Dan T
If human life is not sacred then what the heck is? If a human acts as a derelict, this does not make his humanness unsacred. His life is sacred his behavior is another story and a civil society respects his humanness by not executing him and removes him from society. Dan T. Jim Lubin <[EMAIL

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Lubin
At 05:50 PM 4/8/2007, Dan wrote: At 05:29 PM 4/8/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my response: Risking a life and taking a chance is not the same as willfully terminating a life. I wasn't happy that she was doing IVF because I don't agree with it. I also wasn't paying the th

[QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts & Confusion

2007-04-08 Thread wheelchair
Not to make light of a serious situation, but this issue is being clouded by both facts and some. I'm easily confused by some of those "facts." W In a message dated 4/8/2007 1:04:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am against the whole IVF process that creates ex

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Dan
more or less regardless of any laws being passed, meaning all >>this work and uproar and not one life saved but science and research could >>save the suffering of millions and they’re the killers! >> >>Mark Jackson >> RollinOn >> >> >>From: Jim Lubi

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Lubin
inOn From: Jim Lubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:11 PM To: Dan; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts Dan, Her eggs were harvested then fertilized with her husbands sperms, this resulted in 8 embryos. Four were implanted in uterus, all 4 fai

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread RollinOn
_ From: Jim Lubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:54 PM To: Angie Novak; Quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts No difference by your definition of life, having a consciousness. A human of 50-150 cells is going to die anyway. I don't consider

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Danny Hearn
the killers! Mark Jackson RollinOn - From: Jim Lubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:11 PM To: Dan; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts Dan, Her eggs were harvested then fert

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread RollinOn
_ From: Jim Lubin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:11 PM To: Dan; quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts Dan, Her eggs were harvested then fertilized with her husbands sperms, this resulted in 8 embryos. Four were implanted in uterus, all

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Lubin
No difference by your definition of life, having a consciousness. A human of 50-150 cells is going to die anyway. I don't consider it a life, so take parts of it before it dies to possibly improve my life. Why not let the death serve a purpose? This guy just suddenly stopped breathing. If we

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Dan
At 01:11 PM 4/8/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my response: >Dan, > >Her eggs were harvested then fertilized with her husbands sperms, this >resulted in 8 embryos. Four were implanted in uterus, all 4 failed to develop >and she had a miscarriage. Several month later she had

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Angie Novak
The very embryos that we're talking about, are not going to survive in the first place. They will never be put in a womb to see if they will survive. They aren't babies, just 50-150 life-saving and life changing cells. Why don't more people see that? -Angie Jim Lubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Lubin
Dan, Her eggs were harvested then fertilized with her husbands sperms, this resulted in 8 embryos. Four were implanted in uterus, all 4 failed to develop and she had a miscarriage. Several month later she had 3 more implanted and those failed to develop. How could anyone possibly equate a mi

RE: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread RollinOn
_ From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:05 AM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts So what do you do with the thousands of excess fertilized eggs that result from in vitro fertilization? Store them forever? Ban the process? These

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Dan
At 11:01 AM 4/8/2007 -0700, Jim Lubin said something that elicited my response: >I am against the whole IVF process that creates excess embryos to begin with. >On a side note, my cousin just gave birth to a son last week. He was the >result of IVF from her egg and her husband's sperm. They ha

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Angie Novak
An eight-month-old fetus is very different from an embryo. That's why there are laws against abortion after a certain time. No, I don't see a problem with using what I don't consider a human life to better myself and anyone like us. We're different than 50-150 cells that are going to be destr

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Lubin
Angie, I do respect your opinion, even if I don't agree with it. You at least state that you define "a life" as having a consciousness. I am not aware if an 8 month old fetus has a consciousness or not but I would consider that stage of development a life. That is why I define a human life fro

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Angie Novak
What if your cousin's son had a disease or suffered a spinal cord injury? Wouldn't you want any treatment possible to be available to him to stop his agony? I know I would for my nephew. How is it self-centered to want to be in control of your body, something you had before your spinal cord

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Angie Novak
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course. But look at some of the people around, can we really say that all human life is precious? I can't. There are just some people living their lives out there walking around and breathing that don't deserve to be. However, these are people, not j

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Jim Lubin
I am against the whole IVF process that creates excess embryos to begin with. The frozen embryos can continued to be stored indefinitely. What's wrong with that? Are you concerned about the energy being used to keep them frozen? The embryos that are unfrozen eventually die a natural death, ju

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Angie Novak
I hope you're kidding. Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, yes, yes! We must not destroy all those useless fertilized eggs. We should let them perish on their own and then we should have an elaborate funeral and bury them in a tiny little plot of earth. AND we must not allow abortion at ANY co

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-08 Thread Dan
So what do you do with the thousands of excess fertilized eggs that result from in vitro fertilization? Store them forever? Ban the process? These excess eggs are thrown into the garbage everyday yet I don't hear anyone complaining. So what's your answer. Dan At 07:50 PM 4/7/2007 -0700, Jim

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-07 Thread Dan T
Human life is sacred and an embryo is the initial stage of life. I would like to be up and around and Independent but not at the sacrifice of another human life. Dan T. Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, yes, yes! We must not destroy all those useless fertilized eggs. We should let them per

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-07 Thread Jim Lubin
Glad to see you partly agree with me Dan. (yes I realize you were being sarcastic) I don't agree with the part about having elaborate funerals and burying them, but yes we must not destroy unused fertilized eggs created for IVF treatments. Using unused embryos is not the same as organ donation

Re: [QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-07 Thread Dan
Yes, yes, yes! We must not destroy all those useless fertilized eggs. We should let them perish on their own and then we should have an elaborate funeral and bury them in a tiny little plot of earth. AND we must not allow abortion at ANY cost. Thank you Jesus! Hallelujah! Dan, who always gives

[QUAD-L] Six Stem Cell Facts

2007-04-07 Thread Jim Lubin
SIX STEM CELL FACTS The public discussion of human embryo research has too often lacked intellectual honesty, which has only compounded the confusion of an issue of great scientific and moral complexity, say Robert P. George professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University and a member of