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Press
Release
Ron
Reagan Jr.-Not Pro-Lifers-Should Be Ashamed
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2004
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE President
Don Nelson
Ron Reagan Jr. told the
Democratic Committee tonight that pro-lifers who oppose
embryonic stem cell research have an axe to grind and should
be ashamed. The
truth is that Reagan Jr. has an axe to grind and it’s his
hatred of President Bush.
Reagan should be ashamed because he knows that the
particular kind of stem cell research he advocates would not
have helped his father. Nor
has it been shown that it will ever help anyone.
Neither Reagan Jr., nor any of the Nobel Prize
scientists supporting this particular form of research, can
point to any successful human treatment or application.
The results have been so devastating in animal trials
that some scientists have called for an end to embryonic stem
cell research.
Reagan and embryonic stem cell research advocates’
fixation with embryonic research is hurting, not helping
successful stem cell research.
Adults stem cell research which uses a person’s own
stem cells, and cord blood stem cell research have produced
positive results. These
results include treatment for heart damage, multiple
sclerosis, corneal injury, spinal injury, Parkinson's and
restoration in some muscle and bladder control in paralyzed
human patients. Mice
with juvenile diabetes have been cured using human spleen
cells. Liver tissue has been regenerated by bone-marrow stem cells.
As a result, the focus on this embryonic research by Reagan
and others has hurt American sufferers.
They have had limited access to these new treatments in
part because of the fixation on embryo research.
Many have had to leave the country for other
applications not available in America.
Embryonic stem cell research is not immoral because it
raises false hopes and wastes taxpayer dollars.
It is immoral because it creates human beings with the
intention of exploiting them for their body parts-their stem
cells. Opponents
of embryonic stem cell research would not oppose it if it did
not involve the destruction of a self-directing,
self-organizing, self-assembling human being in the embryonic
stage. Human beings are not means to an end no matter how small.
Reagan acknowledges that embryonic stem cell research
kills embryos. But
his words allege that these embryonic human beings have no
value, rights or humanity because of their diminutive size and
because they were not intended to be implanted into a womb and
born. Americans
understand that humanity and rights do not come from size,
development or the intentions others have for us.
Shame on Reagan for creating false hope, wasting taxpayer
money for immoral, unproductive research and for demeaning the
dignity of human beings in the embryonic stage.
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