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Congress
Passes Embryo Killing/Experimentation Bill
There
Is Not Enough Support To Override Promised Bush Veto
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 11, 2007
The following statement can be attributed
to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson:
The
House of Representatives voted 253-174 today to overturn
President Bush’s embryonic stem cell research policy.
The vote is 37 votes short of overturning
President Bush’s promised veto.
The
vote is an ethical disaster because human embryonic stem
cells can only be procured by killing human embryos.
That makes the vote a vote for human experimentation.
Human beings have inherent value.
They are not resources to be mined, crops to be
harvested or commodities to be bought and sold.
This bill also opens the door to experimentation
on human beings at other stages of development and it
opens the door to cloning.
President Bush’s veto is necessary to keep
America from taking an irreversible venture into
unethical human experimentation.
The
added funding and embryo destruction is disappointing
because embryonic stem cell research has failed to
provide a single human benefit or cure after years and
millions of dollars of research. Non-embryonic stem cell
research is exploding ahead with over 72 reported
benefits and cures and more than 1000 human trials under
way. There
are still no human embryonic stem cell trials.
California is spending $3 billion in the next 10
years for embryonic stem cell research. Federal and state funds are going unspent for a lack of
applicants.
The
bill is called the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act
of 2007. This
legislation will enhance the prospects of cash strapped
biotech firms and the political fortunes of politicians
who will use embryonic stem cell research as a wedge
issue, but it is looking more and more like embryonic
stem cell research will not enhance the prospects of
miraculous cures for sufferers.
This
vote crosses leads America into an irreversible venture
into human experimentation.
President Bush must veto it again.
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