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Bush
To Veto Embryonic Stem Cell Bill.
Supporters
Vow To Expose Opponents Of The Bill As
Anti-Patient/Anti Research. Senate
To Vote On Fetus Farming Protection Act.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 12, 2006
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE
President Don Nelson:
President
Bush has vowed to veto an ethically dangerous bill (HR
810) that
would allow researchers to destroy human embryos for
research and therapy.
This bill is dangerous because it says that
there are classes of living human beings who can be
experimented upon and used as means to an end for
other people. The
bill’s bizarre “ethical guidelines” do nothing
to protect other classes of human beings from being
used or destroyed for research or tell us why we can
experiment on these kinds of human beings but not
others. Under
these guidelines, embryo destruction is justified if
the embryos are not needed, would be discarded, the
donation was with consent of their parents and
contained no financial inducements.
Every Nevada Congressman voted for this bill.
Embryonic
stem cell advocates have promised to expose
anyone who does not support H.R. 810 as being anti-patient,
and anti-research.
This is an example of the accuser being
guilty of the charge.
Embryonic stem cell researchers have had 20
years to produce some result, but they haven’t.
These are the same people cornering all the
funds that could be used to promote research and
therapies that are actually helping people right now.
Alternate
stem cell research, called adult stem cell research,
uses stem cells that do not require destroying human
embryos, and has been able to meet the alleged
advantages of embryonic stem cells.
They possess the ability to become any type of
cell, are reproducible and do not contain the side
effects of embryonic stem cells.
There have been over 65 human cures using adult
stem cells and there are over 500 human trials
underway. There
are no embryonic stem cell cures.
Embryonic stem cells appear to have inherent
problems and are so dangerous in animal studies that
there are no human trials.
The
Senate is also considering The Fetus Farming
Prohibition Act, to prevent embryonic stem cell
research from expanding into fetal farming.
It would make it a federal offense for a
researcher to use tissue from an unborn human baby who
has been gestated in a woman's womb or an animal womb,
for the purpose of providing tissue. The Congress
needs to act because New Jersey passed a law (L.2003,c.203,s.3)
to fund the cloning and implantation of humans
into the womb to be harvested for “cadaveric”
tissue for research and transplantation.
None of this is illegal in the United States
with private funding.
The Congress needs to sustain the President’s
veto on HR 810 and the Senate needs to pass the Fetal
Farming Protection Act (S. 3504).
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