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We need you, too, Dee and your support  is greatly appreciated.  Ray----
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From: "Dolores Buente" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: Sen Brownback/Thank you Greg!


> Dear Greg and Ray,
>
> Greg, your chronology of the fight against and defeat of the
> Brownbeck/Welldon Bill  which would have criminalized SCNT  research and
> jailed both
> scientists conducting it and patients  seeking cures through it is an
> inspiration to
> me!
>
> You illustrate so well that, through organization and  determination, we
> CAN
> have a voice and we DO have a part in the  decisions that determine our
> fate.
>
> Many of us do not have a history of the efforts spent and  accomplishments
> achieved by those who've come before us.  Thank  you for the reminder that
> it is
> through the work of patients and  patient advocacy groups that we have
> been
> able to sustain and promote this  most profound and promising avenue of
> research.  Letters, phone calls and  email to our representatives do
> count.  Funding
> and participation in  advocacy groups that give voice and attention to our
> cause are  effective.  Willingness to speak against the "Use your brain-go
> to
> jail"  intimidators can win out.
>
> We need federal funding for embryonic stem cell research (Bill H.R.  810).
> We need more focused and cost effective management of the NIH  dollars
> that are
> now being spent on Parkinson's research (Bill H.R.3550  introduced by
> representative Lane Evans of Illinois).  We need voices in  each and every
> state to
> advocate for the advancement of ESC and SCNT research  and to vote down
> legislation that would criminalize it.  We need  calls, letters and emails
> to
> pharmaceutical companies like AMGEN to protest  their greed for profits
> over the
> humane treatment of the people who participated  in their GDNF trial.  We
> should
> not support these companies in either the  purchase of their stock nor
> participation in their trials.  We should let  them know that their lack
> of ethics and
> moral responsibility in  this issue will not be forgotten as they have
> forgotten the people who  participated in this trial.
>
> We have good days, we have bad days but we can do it. Thank you Greg  for
> your inspiration and thank you Ray (who just bought two new  T-shirts!)
> and is
> gutsy enough to tell it like it is!
>
> Dee
>
>
>
>
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