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From: "mike99" <>

Subject: Re: #22690 President's Council on Bioethics - More Anti-Longevity 
Rhetoric
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:28:54 -0600

October 17, 2003
Bush's Advisers on Biotechnology Express Concern on Its Use
By NICHOLAS WADE

"...The council's message is that neither commerce nor
science, despite their utility, should be allowed to dictate a reshaping of
human nature."

Beneficial biotech is not being shoved down our collective throats by
science or business -- we're demanding it! In the USA, we have a
Constitutional right to the pursuit of "life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness." Biotech can help us to achieve these.

If any group is attempting to dictate the shape of human nature, it's the
narrow-minded (im)moralists on Bush's biotech board who appear to celebrate
death, disease and the continuance of human unhappiness.


Michael LaTorra




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