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New
Poll Shows Americans Still Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell
Research Funding
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June1, 2006
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Proposed Expansion Opens Door
To Unethical Human Experimentation
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Every
Nevada
Congressman Supports Expansion
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE
President Don Nelson:
A
new International Communications Research poll shows
that Americans oppose federal funding of research that
kills human embryos for research by 48% to 39%.
This is in direct opposition to legislation passed by
the Congress (H.R. 810) last year to overturn
President Bush’s embryonic stem cell research
policy. That policy opposes federal funding of
research on human embryos killed after August 9, 2001.
Every Nevada Congressman voted for this unpopular
legislation to significantly expand federal funding of
human embryo killing for research. Their votes
“take us” as President Bush says, “across a
critical ethical line by creating new incentives for
the ongoing destruction of emerging human life.”
The proposed expansion opens the door to fetal farming
and unethical human experimentation.
Some
polls indicate support for public funding of embryonic
stem cell research (ESCR). Those polls are so
fraudulently biased that even President Bush would end
up supporting legislation to overturn his own funding
policy. When respondents discover that
scientists disagree on whether embryonic or non
embryonic stem cells may be more successful in
treating diseases, 57% favor funding research that
does not harm the donor; only 24% favored funding all
stem cell research, including ESCR.
Nevada’s
Congressmen should not be misled by irresponsible
hyping of ESCR. There are over 65 non-ESCR
successes and more than 300 human trials in progress.
This research poses no moral objections and
progress been made with heart disease, Parkinson’s,
and curing diabetes in mice. Some paralyzed
women have begun to walk with braces. There are
NO embryonic stem cell successes. There are NO
human trials after years of research. Results in
Korea trumpeted by leading American science journals,
and still cited by the BBC, were fraudulent.
Those researchers face criminal charges.
The
Senate will pass a version of HR 810 this summer.
Nevada’s Congressmen must switch their votes to
uphold President Bush’s expected veto so that they
don’t waste taxpayer money on unproductive, morally
objectionable research that crosses an ethical line
and opens the door to fetal farming and unethical
human experimentation.
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