From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 01:09:59 MDT
The eMP member hunting URL should be
http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN&iorig=home
of course. Cut and paste from forums nails me every time...
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
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> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:05 PM
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> Subject: embryonic stem cell ban in euro parliament: anti-research
> legislation spreading, as predicted
>
>
> So the European Parliament is out in force, looking very conservative
> American these days. I admit I haven't been following any lead-in to this,
> but it does seem somewhat out of the blue. (Even if I have been predicting
> more of this sort of thing to come). Embryonic stem cell research isn't
> banned without more voting and buy-in by member states, but still.
>
> My commentary plus link to the original article:
>
> http://www.longevitymeme.org/news/?news_id=184
>
> Original article from the Beeb:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2932421.stm
>
> I'm pondering the merits of putting together a Longevity Meme action page
> for those who want to give their euro MP a piece of their mind (since they
> seem to need it). The fun starts when thinking about finding and
> contacting
> your eMP. Admittedly it's a lot easier than it used to be. So far as I can
> see, you go to:
>
> http://www.europarl.eu.int/
>
> pick your language to get to:
>
> http://www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.htm
>
> and then go member hunting at the less-than-intuitive:
>
> http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/p_mep...g=EN&iorig=home@o
>
> The party affiliation has me somewhat confused (once you get to
> the members
> themselves, there are fax numbers, and clear bios though). I
> don't see a way
> to find your eMP by specific geographical location. Does anyone have a
> better resource for doing this sort of thing? Something more streamlined
> like www.congress.org for the US system? A coherent explanation of the
> structure and affliations within the European Parliament would also be
> useful, not to mention some educated commentary on how we got the point of
> eMPs voting to criminalize embyonic stem cell research.
>
> Reason
> http://www.exratio.com/
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