Thursday, Feb. 28 2002
HE WAS TREATED TOO GENTLY

This is my assessment on the sentence likely to be imposed on the Missouri druggist, a fellow by the name of Courtney, who pleaded guilty to altering chemotherapy drugs Taxon and Gemzar. He altered the drugs to increase the profit on each dose. The result was the possible early death of patients who was receiving recommended dosages to treat their cancer.

DO ADVOCACY GROUPS HAVE AS MUCH SENSE AS PEOPLE?

There is a rare form of Alzheimer Disease which represents 1% of all Alzheimer sufferers. If a person inherits this genetic gene, they are almost certain to develop this disease in their early thirties. A lady in California knew that she suffered from this genetic disorder and could expect the same fate as her brother, sister and father, i.e., certain death before 40.

Desiring children but not wanting to pass along her genetic problem, she contacted Geneticist Yury Verlinsky, a doctor at Chicago's Reproductive Genetics Institute. He proscribed In-vitro fertilization. This is a procedure where the eggs of the woman are fertilized in the lab and then implanted in the womb. But before the implantation Dr. Verlinsky screened the eggs and selected one which did not bear the gene. The result was the birth of a healthy daughter who could expect a life without Alzheimer. The mother is now pregnant again.

You would think that everyone should be happy. Not so. Now for the busybodies. They cried that the woman was certain to die before she could possibly raise the children to maturity. Risky said others, playing god was charged. Many said that it was an unregulated by the Government.

Most would have voiced no complain had the mother elected to have produced a child predisposed to an early death. Few would have disapproved of an abortion to terminate the pregnancy if the fetus were defective.

The effect of their objections, if followed would deprive the woman of bearing children who could not be assured of this genetic disorder which affects only a few families worldwide, or having the fetus screened
and aborted if found to carry the gene.

We have too many busy bodies in this world. (The full report can be obtained by looking at Today's edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.)(Reporter Lindsey Tanner AP Medical Writer also
reported on the case. )

Click on the below link for the original JAMA article or copy the line and put into your Web browser:

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n8/abs/jpc10036.html

PAT ROBERTSON HAD IT RIGHT!

Pat said that President Bush was wrong when he labeled Islam a peaceful religion. Pat is quoted as, "Islam is a violent religion that wants to dominate and then. If need be destroy." Pat is right. Militant Islam is committed to the destruction of America, and killing of Jews and Christians. Some say that it is only a few radical sects which believe that. This appears to be wrong. Apparently most support terrorism. Let me
give you a simple analogy. My church does not have an orphanage but we monthly send funds to the Ga. Baptist convention that does. In that sense we support Orphans.

Most American Mosques send money to terrorist organizations. In that sense they support terrorism just as much so as my church supports Orphans. The charge is made that all religions have at one time had their
religious-sanctioned terrorism. This is true. It was almost always only after the religion became the State religion. It now generally a thing of the past in all but the Muslim religion.It is for this reason, based on the view of past history, that our founding fathers prohibited the Nation from a state sanctioned religion.
We do have the terrorism of the Irish in the fight between Catholics and Protestants. Those churches in the United States sending funds to the Irish Republican Army are in the same camp as the radical Islamic
people.

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