Research shows that many diseases can be cured - not just suppressed but
cured using your own stem cells - but how to get enough to do the job? The
answer is to strip a cell - say a frog egg of its DNA, replace it with yours
and do a little well proven medical hocus pocus and the cell begins to
divide and redivide into *your* stem cells - cells that can repair damaged
tissues to cure diabetes, parkinsons, et al. Why aren't we pursueing this?
Because the religious right thinks it is wrong and they control enough US
politicians to prevent it happening in the USA. Thank goodness the rest of
the world disagrees.



NITED NATIONS, Nov. 19 - Faced with polarizing division in the 191-member
General Assembly, the United States on Friday abandoned its aggressively
pursued attempt to obtain a United Nations treaty banning all human cloning,
including that done in the name of medical research.

The outcome - an agreement to come up with a nonbinding declaration against
cloning to reproduce humans - fell far short of the American goal and
represented a setback for President Bush. He called for a worldwide ban on
all cloning when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly in August,
and he made limiting stem cell and other related research an issue in his
presidential campaign.