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Press Release
Senate To Consider
Temporary Cloning Ban
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 9, 2001
Contact
Don Nelson, Nevada LIFE, 775-530-0029
The following statement can
be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson:
Nevada LIFE
urges the president to maintain the funding ban on
embryonic stem cell research.
This ban is necessary to
fulfill the president’s vision of creating a culture of
life.
That vision cannot be
fulfilled by taking advantage of newly created human
beings.
Progress, which is ethical,
must not be at the expense of other human beings.
Embryonic stem
cell research is unethical and unnecessary.
This research is unethical
because each of us is a human being with the unalienable
right to life from the moment of our creation, whether
that occurs in a petri dish or in a womb.
Human beings are not to be
used as means to others’ ends without their consent.
This research will kill
tiny humans.
In doing so it reduces them
and others to mere commodities to be bought and sold or
manipulated for the benefit of others.
Since governments are
instituted to protect the right to life, it is our
government’s duty to protect these tiny human’s rights,
not to fund and allow their destruction.
This research
is also unnecessary.
Adult stem cells have been
found to be equally capable, if not more reliable, than
embryonic stem cells.
Since these stem cells are
found in virtually every organ in the body, and are
present in human fat, there is a sufficient supply.
Stem cells have also been
found in umbilical cords and placenta of born children.
The application and
successes of the use of these stem cells, though
curiously not widely reported, have generated far
greater results than embryonic stem cell research.
We urge the
president to maintain this ban and with the Congress ban
private research.
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