RE: embryonic stem cell ban in euro parliament: anti-research legislation spreading, as predicted

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 01:09:59 MDT

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    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/

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
    > [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Reason
    > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 10:05 PM
    > To: extropians@extropy.org; wta-talk@yahoogroups.com
    > 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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