[ID] 4326 [Entry Date] 05/01/2009 at 03:37:35 PM [Affiliation] Self [Comments] 
I am opposed to the use of taxpayer money to be used for the destruction of human embryos. It is unethical to destroy a human embryo which could be adopted/implanted/carried by a women for a couple who wants a child. There have been no significant break-throughs with embryonic stem cell research however, there is great promise with the use of adult stem cells. Please fund research using adult stem cells which does not destroy a human embryo. History is full of examples where humans experimented on other humans because they did NOT consider them people, i.e, the Nazi's experimented on the Jews in the concentration camps and Black men were denied Penicillin to treat syphillis in the south....all for the "good of mankind!" Let us not make the same mistake--Killing a human embryo for the use of experimentation--is unethical. sincerely,