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Senate
To Approve More Killing of Human Embryos. Bush
Promises First Veto.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2006
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE
President Don Nelson:
The
United States Senate is expected to pass the Stem
Cell Research Enhancement Act (HR 810) to overturn
President Bush’s embryonic stem cell research
funding policy. The
policy provides federal funding of embryonic stem
cell research using embryonic stem cells derived from
embryos killed prior to August 9, 2001.
It prohibits federal funding of such research
using embryos destroyed after August 9, 2001.
HR 810 would fund embryonic stem cell
research regardless of the date embryonic stem
cells are derived from a human embryo. The
president’s policy does not prohibit private
or state funding of any embryonic stem cell research.
California approved $3 billion for embryonic
research and cloning. The president’s policy funds
non-embryonic (adult) stem cell research.
Every Nevada Congressman voted for HR 810.
President Bush has promised to veto the bill.
HR
810 is unethical because embryonic stem cell research
takes human life by requiring destruction of human
embryos to obtain embryonic stem cells.
It
makes human life expendable for others.
HR 810 says that there are classes of living
human beings who can be experimented upon and used as
a means to an end for other people and opens the door
to fetus farming (see fourth paragraph).
Embryonic
stem cell advocates promise 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 results. These
are the same people cornering all the funds that could
be used to fund research and therapies that are
helping people right now.
Alternate
stem cell research, called adult stem cell research,
uses stem cells and does not require destroying human
embryos. There
are more than 70 human cures using adult stem cells
and over 500 human trials underway. These cures include 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.
There are no embryonic stem cell cures or human
trials.
The
Senate is considering The Fetus Farming Prohibition
Act, to prevent embryonic stem cell research from
expanding into fetal farming.
The act would make it a federal offense for
researchers 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. New Jersey
passed a law in 2004 to fund the cloning and
implantation of humans into wombs for harvesting of
“cadaveric” tissue for research and
transplantation.
None of this is illegal in the United States
with private funding.
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