Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Fantastic Anna I just want to say that the article by Anna Nussbaum ("Axioms of Faith," September 14) is fantastic and you should put it up on your Web site, and...
...But what kind of difference...
...Considering our entrancement with technology in all its forms, cloning, "designer children," and "control and standardization of human reproduction" are not inconceivable...
...CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Fantastic Anna I just want to say that the article by Anna Nussbaum ("Axioms of Faith," September 14) is fantastic and you should put it up on your Web site, and then let young people know it is there...
...This is profoundly true...
...The editors reply: September 11, 2001 has made a difference, as the opening pages of this issue show...
...JOHN CALHOUN New York, N.Y...
...brian scanlan Wyckoff, N.J From the editors: It will be done...
...Vice President Dick Cheney's statement on "Meet the Press," Sunday, September 16, that we will need all military systems, including a missiledefense system, simply reinforces our view that Congress will need to scrutinize the Bush administration not only for its appropriation requests but for its battle plans...
...DON LUND Stoughton, Wise...
...It illustrates my point about the absolutism of "pro-life" arguments against this research...
...Congress will need to steel itself against the administration's singlemindedness on military spending...
...For this reason, I wish that you had not addressed this issue in the manner you did...
...for the benefit of another...
...If the president...refuses to cut back on increases in military spending...offer him the straitjacket...
...I found the tone exaggerated...
...I cannot give much credence to your claim that using a preembryo "the size of a period" for medical research is equivalent to harvesting an unconscious person for his or her organs...
...Commonweal 2 September 28,2001...
...CAROLYN TORRANCE Harrisburg, Pa...
...Hail, secular ethics I just read your August 17 editorial on preembryonic stem-cell research ["The Stem-cell Sell...
...Do you know of any library needing those years...
...Nor can I accept your word that this research will be unproductive...
...Military spending From your September 14 editorial, "No Voodoo Economics—Yet": "His priorities, he [President George W. Bush] says [note the sarcasm in "he says"], are spending on the military...
...I guess we'll have to rely upon secular ethicists to wrestle with these questions, while religious spokespersons opt out into hypocritical assertions that "we should not sacrifice the life/dignity of one human...
...Your implication that this research may have an "ultimate goal" other than curing illness raises serious concerns about medical technology...
...He is pressing for money to increase military spending...
...Priceless gift I have five library-bound volumes of Commonweal for the years 1985-90...
...large increases in military spending led to enormous deficits...
...My, what a difference a day makes...
...But where is it being practiced...
...to securing the military funds the administration insists [note again the sarcasm] it needs to protect the United States from terrorists and rogue nations...
...Be glad to donate...
...The questions raised by stem-cell research need balance, insight and respect—not reactive antiabortion rhetoric...
Vol. 128 • September 2001 • No. 16
