I'd rather be blogging and other loose ends

Tuesday, February 7. 2006

I'd rather be blogging and other loose ends

I was at my other job today, and all I could think about was that I'd rather be blogging. That was a new feeling for me as my job is pretty interesting. (In case you are wondering what it is I actually DO when I am not blogging, among other things, I sequence DNA looking for genetic disorders that you have probably never heard of. Hence the fascination with genetics.)

So, does this mean I'm a bloggin junkie? (My husband would probably answer with a resounding YES! Which is funny because the blog was his idea!) And what does this mean? What is in store for me? Serious withdrawals when my Internet connection goes down? Is there even a 12-step program for the blogosphere? Any seasoned bloggers have any words of wisdom?

I have resisted the temptation to get lost in Google News and instead I thought I would just tie up some loose ends:

1. Reneuron never got back to me about where they get their fetal tissue. No surprise there. I guess that means we can presume the worst: they are building a business on the bodies of aborted babies. (Ugh, writing that just made me shiver and want to lose my dinner.)

2. Claire McCaskill, "the non-Catholic, Catholic politician" never answered my letter where I sent her a copy of Donum Vitae. No surprise there either. I had a feeling she wasn't interested in official Church Doctrine if it got in the way of her run for the U.S. Senate.

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From a 2002 interview:

D&MD: There has been a lot of fuss over the issue of what happens with fetal remains at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool. How does ReNeuron view this in relation to its use of fetal brain cells?

Edwards: We access human fetal brain material from terminated pregnancies. They’re typically about eight-to-ten-week fetuses.

And the situation is very different from Alder Hey. The situation at Alder Hey was that people were having stillbirths, or children (who) die shortly after birth, and having body parts removed from those children without consent.

In our case, we’re talking about people making the decision not to have a child and, having made that decision, then being asked to give us full consent that any tissue that can be salvaged from the terminated pregnancy can be used in this way. So all that was really seen was donated to us with fully informed consent.

http://pharmalicensing.com/articles/disp/1026598217_3d30a54973f51

#1 Steven Edwards (Homepage) on 2006-02-08 09:04 (Reply)

Thanks Steven, once again you deliver!

Well, now I guess its O.K. cause there was consent. Ugh! again!

#1.1 Rebecca on 2006-02-08 17:38 (Reply)

No big shocker re: Claire McCaskill.

#2 Kat (Homepage) on 2006-02-09 12:33 (Reply)

So, there you have it, folks. It's only tissue and yet "it" has a brain.

I like the idea of "consent," as well. It's like me giving my "consent" to kill my neighbor and use his/her body for research. Why ask him/her? I already gave consent.

#3 bmmg39 on 2006-02-09 15:43 (Reply)

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