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Dear Janice, I for one am opposed to reproductive cloning, which aims to create human beings by cloning human embryos. But I'm not alone. Patients advocacy groups and leading scientists, including the National Academy of Sciences, and a huge majority of the American people agree that human reproductive cloning should not be pursued. What we're talking about here is that SCNT could lead to dramatic new treatments and cures for now-incurable diseases and medical conditions. SCNT could be used to help nearly 100 million Americans suffer from cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes, Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries, heart disease, ALS, and other devastating conditions for which treatments must still be found. Proof of the principle for SCNT has been established in recently published research on disease in mice.Moreover SCNT is widely supported in the U.S., for instance by the Nation's leading medical scientists, including the National Academy of Sciences, major patient advocacy organizations, the American public, Republicans and Democrats and religious leaders. However the Brownback bill would have devastating results. It would ban SCNT, or therapeutic cloning, cutting-off hope to millions of Americans with life-threatening diseases; make it illegal for U.S. citizens to seek SCNT treatment abroad. This means that a patient who may have little hope left could be thrown in jail upon re-entry to the U.S. if they went to another country to have treatment using SCNT. The bill calls for sending any U.S. scientist to jail for developing SCNT therapies in a petri dish; makes it illegal for U.S. scientists to import SCNT therapies that were developed in other countries. In short, passage of Brownback-or any ban on this research-runs counter to our nation's history as the world's leader in biomedical research.Even a temporary ban on SCNT (such as a moratorium) would cripple this promising field and delay patients' access to potentially life-saving treatments. And one final point that I would like to make. When we start saying when life begins and when life ends and God is for this science and God is against that science, we limit God. How can we as His creation begin to know the true mind of God? Sincerely, Terry Bowers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 5:40 AM Subject: Re: Debra/no sperm in SCNT > Dear Rayilyn Brown, > I hear what you are saying, does that mean that Dolly the sheep that was a > clone from an egg no sperm not a real sheep. What about the kitten that came > from an egg no sperm was that a real kitten. I saw on TV where and > independent company cloned an mans DNA from an egg and they said if it was > implanted into an woman it would become a child. Just because there is no > sperm involved does not mean there is no life. Janice > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn