Please, Protect and Fund Stem Cell Research at the NIH for the sake of the whole nation;
it's a small investment that will save tens of billions of dollars to our government and
nation, not to mention the human suffering of people from all religions and walks of life
who suffer from all kinds of disorders and diseases.  Please read and share these words with
your colleagues for the sake of the nation and your own futures.

Just yesterday stem-cell language was removed from the HSS appropriations bill.  STEM-CELL
RESEARCH  PROMOTES LIFE:  not only NEW LIFE through in vitro fertilization, but in SAVING
HUMAN LIVES  by utilizing cells that would otherwise be discarded.  These CELLS ARE  DONATED
so that others can live, just as ORGANS ARE DONATED so that many people you know, have and
will been saved.  These cells could not possibly be used to produce a new human life--the
ones used to create a new life have been already selected to produce NEW LIFE.  THESE
UNUSABLE CELLS that are being discarded are the ones used for stem-cell extraction in
research and in actual human transplantation that has already been done and greatly improved
lives!  It's the same as organ donation;  it's not taking a life, it's giving NEW LIFE AND
IS LIFE SAVING---IT'S A WIN WIN.  In organ donation, death gives life, in stem-cell
transplantation LIFE GIVES LIFE!


     Stem-cell research  PROMOTES LIFE----curtailing it curtails  life!

Charlotte Mancuso
Young Parkinson's Support Group
668 Channing Avenue
Palo Alto, CA  94301
(650--329-0967)
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             They said I could send post about this if  I gave them credit and
             told you how to get a temporary subscription. This certainly does this.
             It came in right after the editors post.
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             September 30, 1999

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             SPECIAL EDITION: Dickey stem cell amendment withdrawn
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             An amendment scheduled to be offered today at the full House Appropriations
             Committee mark up of the FY 2000 Labor, Health and Human Services,
             Education, and Related Agencies (L/HHS) spending bill that would have
             prevented the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding research
             with embryonic stem cells was withdrawn late last night at the request of
             the House leadership. (see Washington Fax9/30/99)

             Rep. Jay Dickey, R-AR, the amendment's sponsor withdrew his rider to meet
             the broad request of House Majority Whip Thomas DeLay, R-TX, that no
             controversial amendments be tacked on to this spending bill. Dickey has
             indicated that he has no plans to offer the amendment when the bill reaches
             the House floor.

             Advocates of stem cell research say they believe they have "dodged a
             bullet" and that for the time being the tide of politics has switched to a
             more favorable flow for them by eliminating worry of an amendment to the
             existing spending bill.

             The Senate at this hour has set aside floor debate of its L/HHS bill and
             turned to other matters.

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