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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

MercatorNet - Consternation in Barad-dûr

As this article implies it is often easy to vote for something when it is abstract and not fully understood.  It is a different story when it affects you personally.  People found it easy to vote for a bond issue to allow embryonic stem cell research.  When it came time for women to sell their eggs and along with it their genetic identity, for possible destruction, it no longer sounded so great.

MercatorNet - Analogy between Lord of the Rings and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine stem cell research

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