From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 03:16:01 MDT
Thank you for that information; very helpful. I'll finish my participation
in this thread by noting that I have set up a page at the Longevity Meme to
(I hope) concisely explain the situation and assist people in contacting
their MEPs.
http://www.longevitymeme.org/projects/oppose_the_european_stem_cell_ban.cfm
I urge all of the Europeans on the lists to contact their MEPs -- I have
already done so. Nipping this damaging, luddite legislation in the bud
should, in theory, be an easier job that dealing with legislation currently
in the pipelines in the US. Still, if you don't speak out, you won't be
heard! Contact your MEP today.
I encourage you to forward this message on to sympathetic friends and
associates in Europe.
Reason
http://www.exratio.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-extropians@extropy.org
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Young Patrick (M83072)
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:29 AM
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: embryonic stem cell ban in euro parliament: anti-research
> legislation spreading, as predicted
>
>
> Hi folks
>
> Just type <MEP (your) district> into Google> it's much easier than wading
> through the EP pages
>
> I've mailed my MEP & told him to vote against banning the research. I was
> surprised the committee wants to prevent it. Extraordinary!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reason [mailto:reason@exratio.com]
> Sent: 11 April 2003 08:10
> To: extropians@extropy.org; wta-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: embryonic stem cell ban in euro parliament: anti-research
> legislation spreading, as predicted
>
> The eMP member hunting URL should be
>
> http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN&iorig=home60$6
>
> 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
> >
> > 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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