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Congress
Votes To Overturn Bush’s Stem Cell Policy
Cloning,
Fetal Farming and Fetal
Experimentation/Transplantation To Follow
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 25, 2005
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE
President
Don Nelson
Congress
voted yesterday for a bill today that would overturn
President Bush’s Embryonic Stem Cell Policy limiting
research to embryonic stem cells derived from human
embryos prior to August 9, 2001. H.R. 810 will
fund the research “regardless of the date on which
the stem cells were derived from a human embryo.”
Nevada LIFE opposes this bill because embryonic stem
cell research obtains embryonic stem cells by killing
human beings in the embryonic stage of life.
Embryonic humans are not potential humans; they are
humans with great potential. Every person was
once a human embryo and was no less of a person based
on his or her size, location or level of development.
This bill says that human life and human beings are
expendable for the interests of others.
The
door is now open for fetal farming and fetal tissue
research. Doubters only have to look at American
abortion policy to erase their doubts. Abortion
was supposed to be about terminating clumps of cells,
blobs of tissues, or terminating pregnancies for women
who were raped, victims of incest or faced death.
Now we abort perfectly healthy almost full term babies
without penalty for marginal health benefits to the
mother. Many of those aborted fetuses have been
dissected, processed and sent to research labs with
federal funds. The same will happen with
embryonic stem cell research. If we can create
and destroy life in the “just a ball of cells”
stage for science and therapy, we will create,
implant, grow and use unborn fetuses and fetal clones
for body parts.
Every
Congressman voting for H.R. 810 knows that there are
no embryonic stem cell successes and that there have
been over 50 successes involving stem cells that do
not require the taking of innocent life. They
all know about progress with this research in regards
to heart disease, Parkinson’s, curing diabetes in
mice, women who have begun to walk with braces after
paralysis using non-embryonic stem cells and many
other successes. They also know there are plenty
of existing stem cell lines for years of basic
research.
President
Bush has promised to veto this bill. He has yet
to veto anything. This must be his first in
order to stop the bio-ethical nightmare that awaits
us.
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