Linda  This is good news--17 million more supporters for SCNT.  How best to
throw in our support?  Bob
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From: "Linda J Herman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 7:27 AM
Subject: American Diabetes Association supports Sen. Feinstein's cloning
bill


> FROM: Genomics & Genetics Weekly
>  July 12, 2002
>
> SECTION: EDITOR'S CHOICE; Pg. 7
>
> HEADLINE: REPRODUCTIVE CLONING: ADA takes positive position on
> therapeutic
> cloning, rejects reproductive cloning
>
> BYLINE: Lynn Yoffee, senior medical writer
>
>    The American Diabetes Association during its 62nd Annual Scientific
> Sessions
> in San Francisco, California, called upon the U.S. Senate to consider and
> pass
> the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2002. It will allow scientists to
> search
> for a potential cure to diabetes through a scientific technique known as
> therapeutic cloning or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
>
>    The legislation also establishes a process to review all proposed
> therapeutic
> cloning research within the United States and criminalizes and prohibits
> research that pursues reproductive cloning aimed at the cloning of
> another human
> being.
>
>    "The promise of therapeutic cloning for people affected by diabetes is
> now
> too important to ignore," said Christopher Saudek, MD, president of the
> ADA and
> professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore,
> Maryland.
> "The U.S Senate must help the scientific community resolve the uncertain
> legal
> environment facing top-notch research that could help find new therapies
> and
> maybe even find a cure for diabetes. If the Senate does not act to define
> our
> nation's approach toward therapeutic cloning, America runs the risk of
> driving
> important research overseas and possibly placing important breakthroughs
> out of
> reach of millions of Americans affected by diabetes."
>
>    The ADA expressed strong opposition to legislation seeking to
> criminalize
> therapeutic cloning. This legislation aims to ban all forms of medical
> research
> using therapeutic cloning and would jail Americans seeking a therapeutic
> cloning
> procedure overseas upon their return to the United States.
>
>    "Therapeutic cloning is the next step in the science that brought us
> the
> ability to make human insulin and other proteins that have saved hundreds
> of
> thousands of lives," said Francine Kaufman, MD, president-elect of the
> ADA. "Now
> is the time to ensure that physicians and patients have access to
> life-altering
> and life-saving therapies by allowing scientists to continue with
> therapeutic
> cloning without fear of reprisal. A delay in passing the protections
> contained
> in the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2002 is unacceptable. Frankly,
> the 17
> million Americans with diabetes can no longer live with the status quo in
> diabetes management. Scientists must have the ability to search for a
> cure to
> diabetes within the ethical framework guaranteed by the Human Cloning
> Prohibition Act of 2002."
>
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