Correspondence Cloning,campaign reform
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...The presence of such physical substrates do not guarantee a person, but one cannot have a person without them...
...Usually the American press sim-plistically describes the SDLP as the "Catholic party...
...This is the school that holds if your barometer says it is raining, it is raining, no matter what the weather is doing...
...He suggested morning and evening prayer, "Sunday worship," and recalling the hour of "three o'clock each day...
...To be sure, the SDLP is Catholic in terms of its electoral base...
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...Thus an individualized embryo would have greater moral standing than a blastocyst because of this critical presupposition for personhood...
...I also refuse to use the term "pre-implantation embryo," considering it to be a political term, much like "resident alien," which puts lives at risk...
...As for Scotus, clearly no one has ever seen a "common nature...
...Retirement, however, also begins to drive home that other "time to wait"—our mortality...
...but I think the moral claim needs to be measured in relation to the reality we encounter...
...Austin I would say that as the pre-implantation embryo progresses through phases of development, its moral standing increases: because more of the biological presuppositions for personhood are present...
...Unique from the start I admire Thomas A. Shannon and his work, and usually agree with him— especially on creating hybrids...
...Most, of course, have an "alarm" feature, and I have puzzled over this phenomenon of sending haunting time machines to those in retirement...
...Commonweal is a "throwback" to an earlier time when thinking was valuable...
...At some stages, biological presuppositions for various claims, moral or personal, are absent...
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...This is not unlike Professor Agassiz attempting to determine the degree of intelligence by measuring the size of skulls, or the attemp to determine emotions by photographing facial expressions, or lie "detector" tests, or throwing a clock out the window to see time fly...
...There is also an equivocation on in-dividuation when Callahan slides from a physiological discussion to a psychobiological one...
...Cui bono is the old tag...
...JOHN A. BORST Dryden, Ont...
...Why, I wonder, do people do it...
...His article dealt solely with Feingold's advocacy of campaign finance "reform...
...However, horses exist only in the singular or as an individualized horse...
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...But I don't understand his view that a human embryo has to be "individualized" in order to meet a critical criterion for human personhood (translated as protection from various kinds of experimentation...
...This is that other Christian season of waiting, Lent, with its completion of a journey with Christ...
...Is retirement not supposed to be a release from the daily necessity to work from nine to five...
...Fluidity of the cells of the developing organism is not a new discovery...
...Even before I opened it, I knew it was another clock...
...Certainly my body is sending out new messages, as its internal clocks slow down, unwind, or begin to misfire, such as the dopamine imbalance which now nightly triggers my ever-increasing "restless leg syndrome...
...When many despair of finding a political leader with character, courage, and plain decency, John Hume renews our hope in the nobility of public service...
...And we can do it without a lot of unnecessary clocks...
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...However, to understand Hume one must also know something of the Social Democratic and Labour Party which he leads and represents in both British and European Parliaments...
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...Those of us in this new time of waiting can use both the seasons of Advent and Lent to give new and deeper meaning to John Paul II' s statement that "time given to Christ is never time lost, but rather time gained, so that relationships and indeed our whole life may become more profoundly human" (Dies domi-ni...
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...Lucey ignored the social issues that have led many Catholics, including this writer, to become political conservatives...
...Prizefighter What a delight it was to see John Hume's face on the cover of the November 20,1998 issue of Commonweal ["Peace Itself Is the Prize...
...In the last Congress, Feingold helped sustain President Bill Clinton's veto of a partial-birth abortion ban...
...Feingold's system will be vastly worse...
...However, the party is not a sectarian religious movement...
...And thanks to McCabe for pointing out that none of us expects the president to be a moral leader...
...Later in the century it was the shape of the ears...
...I wonder, however, what "basic justice" Clinton has addressed and what "vision of the nation's future" McCabe has credited to a man who twice vetoed the ban on partial-birth abortion...
...The truly interesting question, the underlying question, is: Why is this important...
...But since the common nature as understood by Scotus is indifferent to its mode of existence, it can exist in the mind as a universal idea or in the individual entity as that particular entity...
...This argument attempts to be faithful to the biological realities while also recognizing the moral claims of this developing entity...
...I have three children in that range...
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...He cited Feingold for "principle" in voluntarily limiting campaign spending, and urged others to support Feingold's solution to the present "corrupt" financing system...
...Or is this only possible in the eye of the bioethicist...
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...If the concept of an individual is defined as an "entity that cannot be divided or, if it is, it becomes two halves neither of which can survive on its own," then what about the cloning of adult organisms...
...More important even than this, during this "time of waiting" my real spirit is drawn to Boyte and Kari's article, "The Rebirth of Citizenship," in the same issue...
...To be rational, there must be at least a neural system or a brain...
...Thus a necessary, but not sufficient, criterion for personhood is individuality because to be a person one must first be an individual...
...MICHAEL KERPER Franklin, N.H...
...Are we not free to establish some new rhythm to our life...
...Did Scotus ever claim that the "common nature" of a horse existed in actual time and space apart from an individual horse-entity...
...Someone who does not want the social Left to be unchallenged prays it will not...
...The answer comes before the question...
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...Now, in retirement, I have received two more...
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...John Hume is Catholic and a Social Democrat, a living point Commonweal 2 8 January 15,1999 of convergence of two grand traditions not always noted for their compatibility...
...On the other hand, from a "psychobiosocial" point of view the process of individualization continues throughout life...
...The "reform" that Feingold and Lucey favor might happen...
...And isn't fluidity or pluripotent capacity of body cells becoming more recognized in new research...
...Biologists wish to conduct experiments on the human body...
...Instead, the SDLP, an affiliate of the Socialist International, draws its political tactics, values, and vision from the rich tradition of European social democracy...
...A good beginning, no doubt, but I find myself more attuned to Guillardetz's contemplation "exercised in the mundane," from the slow preparation of a romantic Sunday meal with my wife to the frightening deadly potential of my chain-saw as I cut up one more tree that has fallen across my driveway...
...That vote pushed this country closer to a goal of the social Left: unrestricted access to abortion anytime, for any reason, paid for by private insurance or government, in this country and throughout the world...
...Like Guillardetz, I too understand the wait attendant to the life of an unborn child, only now I must do it in anticipation of one day being a grandparent...
...Thanks, but no thanks Thanks to David McCabe for reminding us in his review of William Ben-net's The Death of Outrage ["To the Woodshed," November 20,1998] that we see only half of Bill Clinton when we condemn him with his actions...
...Patrick J. Lucey ["The Buck Stops Here," December 4,1998] recalled for Commonweal readers that he endorsed Russ Feingold for election to the Senate in 1992—Lucey's pleasant memory, the nightmare of many Catholics...
...In our real world, journalists and the media overwhelmingly hold and advocate the views of the Left, especially the social Left...
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...Herein lies the footsteps of Christ...
...At a time when many dismiss the democratic Left as irrelevant, John Hume and the SDLP witness to a set of values that can liberate and foster peace, even in places where reconciliation seems impossible...
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...Earlier in the century it was bumps on heads...
...As God said through the prophet Samuel: "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves...
...I know that Scotus is great and Shannon is his prophet but I do have a question...
...And in this day and age—when Canadians aged 25-29 who have never been married exceeds 50 percent—that wait is becoming agonizingly longer...
...How can McCabe speak of universal health care, equal access to education, and affordable housing as "more important principles...than Clinton's occasional trysts" when the president disregards the right-to-life that gives everything else status...
...It would be immoral to conduct experiments on persons...
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...Obviously these are related, but the point of my discussion is that a biological process is a precondition of the other...
...But this is not the season of Advent...
...Agassiz's method Thomas A. Shannon ["Remaking Ourselves," December 4,1998] confuses categories of thinking when he attempts to use a fact in biology (differentiation) to prove a fact in morality...
...Guillardetz's "A Time to Wait," I received an envelope with a small white box inside...
...My adoptive parents and my in-laws have ended their wait, and my wife and I have replaced them in this new season...
...But generally, McCain-Feingold and similar proposals will increase the power of the mass media to form and sway opinion on candidates and issues, and cripple the ability of candidates and private citizens to affect opinion...
...The author replies Because embryogenesis, as well as all biological developments, is a process, I do not acknowledge personhood at all stages of development...
...Incumbency or celebrity status might help some conservatives overcome spending limits...
...Now for Scotus...
...THOMAS A. SHANNON Reform at what price...
...SIDNEY CALLAHAN Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y...
...What is new are the rapidly developing technologies that provide both access to and means of intervention to the organism at the earliest stages...
...In either case, there is a real referent and thus the common nature is not a figment of Scotus's (or his prophet's) imagination...
...That was always the vision of the labor and socialist movements of Ireland...
...but the Lord will not answer you in that day" (1 Samuel 8:18...
...In retirement, I now choose to give the waiting period and my skills and knowledge to protecting the developmentally disabled, children with special needs, and our publicly supported Roman Catholic and public school systems from the ravages of our neoconserva-tive governments...
...Finally, a cell can be taken from an individualized organism and its genetic program restarted in a host egg resulting in a clone...
...ROB RYSER Cross River, N.Y...
...Peace has become possible in Northern Ireland precisely because the interests of Catholic people have become championed by a nonsectarian party devoted to solidarity, economic justice, and equality for all, regardless of religion...
...In an ideal world, the media would fairly and objectively report and discuss all developments of importance to the polity...
...My point is that having a unique human genetic identity appears to be much more of a valid criterion for protection than being an "entity" that is individualized...
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...Mary Pat Kelly's article expresses well Hume's spirit and personal talent for fostering reconciliation...
...Recently our pastor ended his homily with the question, "What can we do to sanctify time—to regain our peace and calm—to choose the better part...
...Sadly, it never received much of a hearing...
...ALFRED J. LEMIRE Worcester, Mass...
...Beginning with the principle that certain racial groups of persons were less intelligent, he looked for distinctive physical characteristics...
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...Now it is blastocysts and blas-tomeres at the beginning of life and the degrees of "vegetableness" in the middle, or at the end...
...PATRICK J. MURPHY Corona, Calif...
...Clockwise Shortly before I received your December 4,1998 issue and Richard Corrrecttion Q. In the cumulative index for Volume CXXV (December 18, IW8), an article by Fli/aboth Kirkland Cahill from the July 17,1998 issue was misti-lled...
...We blame ourselves for believing in the White House...
...discussion of the totipotency of the embryo can be found, for example, in the 1910 Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...Equalizing and limiting spending will throttle political free speech...
...Scotus is an epistemological realist, not a nominalist...
...Thus did Professor Agassiz work...
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...Taking such an individual cell from such an individualized entity is not dividing it and thus the individuality of the donor is maintained while its genetic code is replicated and provides the basis for a new individual...
...Therefore, something in reality must correspond to our universal idea—that which is common to all (Continued on page 28) Commonweal 4 January 15,1999 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 4) horses, for example...
...During my career, at each move, I inevitably received at least one clock, until I had amassed at least six...
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...Therefore, the human body in certain stages is not a person...
...The correct title is: "Vernon Robertson Is in Heaven...
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