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- From: forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach)
- Subject: Re: A question for Suzanne.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.190844.10067@noao.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:08:44 GMT
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- From article by hsims@vax.clarku.edu:
- >
- >Suzanne,
- >
- >It was really interesting to find out that you and I have something in common.
- >We both have fathers who are ill and who would greatly benefit from having a
- >transplant.
- >
- >You mentioned that your father is waiting to receive a kidney transplant from
- >a dead human being, and you didn't seem opposed to that. I hope he will find
- >one soon.
-
- Thank you. I hope your father finds an effective treatment soon too.
-
-
- >How do you feel about my father getting a tissue transplant from dead aborted
- >fetuses?
-
- Were I he, I would refuse it. To me there is a large difference between
- receiving a transplant from someone who died naturally, and receiving one
- from someone who was killed specifically to provide me with it. You say
- it was to be aborted anyway? Still, I myself would refuse to profit from
- the deliberate killing of someone else.
-
-
- >My family is hoping that after Clinton reverses the ban on fetal
- >tissue research,
-
- Your whole family is terribly mistaken. Fetal tissue research has
- _never_been_ banned. Only the funding of it with our _tax_ dollars has
- been banned. Your family should not blame the government. Your family
- should blame the medical establishment that has been unwilling to undertake
- the research to fight Parkinson's without a government guarantee against the
- financial risk.
-
-
- >this procedure will be perfected and will be made available
- >to people like my father who are suffering from parkinson's disease.
-
- What I have read of the experiments in other countries, of Parkinson's
- patients that have been implanted with fetal tissue, is that if there are
- any improvements at all in the patient, they are very short lived - on the
- order of just a few weeks. Then they revert right back as if they hadn't
- had the treatment at all. Don't hang your hopes for your father on this
- treatment, or you will be sadly disappointed.
-
-
- >I'd be interested in hearing your opinions since we seem to be in a similar
- >situation.
-
- I feel very badly for your father, and your family, but I can't see fetal
- tissue implants as a solution. I think the research should focus on more
- effective treatments.
-
- > .... Heather.
-
- Suzanne.
-