<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Dylan, here is my position: When an embryo attaches itself to the uterine wall, it has a good chance of surviving the 39 weeks. To wash it out is to stop a human life. No, not a potential life, a life.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">So I am opposed to it except for protecting the mother's health. However, I support no laws, I support Roe v Wade, and I don't want anyone to interfere with a human's sex life in any way at all. I am a libertarian.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">I do think that using abortion as a birth control method is highly immoral. I personally know the operator of the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, a former student of mine, . She too, thinks multiple abortions are immoral, though she will not stop letting them happen. It's a woman's right, as we see it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">As for fetal tissue: why not let the poor thing make some contribution to science? I see nothing immoral about it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:46 AM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yes, it's legal. As Spike mentioned, they're free to go raise the money for it somewhere else. If you're someone who considers life starting at the moment of conception, and all abortion as murder, I can understand why you don't want your taxpayer dollars going to support it.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:25 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><span style="font-size:14pt">So get private funding. Then study what makes sense rather than what government dictates.<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><font color="#888888" style="font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><font face="arial black, sans-serif">Is fetal tissue legal even privately? bill w</font></span></p></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:44 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2020 5:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> Gregory Jones <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Human Fetal Tissue Research<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 8:10 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">> </span></i></span><i>So have this funded privately. If you accept government money you have to play by gove</i>rnment rules.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">>…Spike, is there <span>ANY</span> action the current Presidential<span> </span>administration could take that you would not defend <span>w</span>ith every fiber of your being?<span> </span> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:14pt">John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">John everything isn’t about presidents or politics. If you take government money, you play by government rules. Is there any politics in that comment? Any defense of any presidential action? If so, note the comment “if you take government money, you play by government rules.” If you don’t like their control, don’t take “their” money. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">Keep in mind that “government money” is paid by taxpayers. Where we don’t want to go is having a lot of taxpayers recognize that their money is going to support something they consider morally abhorrent.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">So get private funding. Then study what makes sense rather than what government dictates.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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