Ray,
I wanted to share this with you...while visiting a stem cell lab
dealing with adult stem cells, the researchers told us
"the embryonic stem cells teach them what to do with the adult stem
cells."
And I love this quote...
"People like to say embryonic stem cells never cured anything [so the
research should be stopped). Well, my 4-year-old hasn't finished
medical school and won a Nobel Prize yet. Should I stop educating her?"
Dale A. Carlson, spokesman for the California Institute for
Regenerative Medicine.
nina
On Mar 9, 2007, at 1:56 PM, rayilynlee wrote:
> The FRCs opposition to hESCR is based on the fiction that embryos
> are people
> and that the blastocysts in question are "embryos". According to
> Yvonne
> Perry's research for her book Right to Recover "embryo" is a
> misnomer in
> this debate.
>
> A blastocyst does not become an embryo unless and until it is
> implanted in a
> uterus (conception). Conception never happens with hESCR or SCNT as
> blastocysts are never implanted and aborted for research.
>
> I have been invited by the opposition here in Arizona to visit a
> nearby ASCR
> lab and I seriously doubt that the ASCs I get to see under a
> microscope look
> any more like little people than do the ESCs - they are all human
> cells.
>
> If you read this article below you will notice it sounds like a
> fetus or a
> person is being killed and equates hESCR with abortion. Unless
> you wish to
> "adopt" a leftover IVF blastocyst I hope you will prevail upon your
> senators
> to support S5 next week and let the couples who are responsible for
> them
> decide their destination. S5 does not require their "death".
> Ray
>
> "Oppose proposed law that will FORCE YOU to fund research that
> kills human
> embryos.
>
> Want Your Tax Dollars to Kill Human Embryos?
> March 9, 2007 | Refer a Friend
> Next week, the U.S. Senate will consider a bill to fund research that
> requires the killing of human embryos. Sponsored by Senators Harry
> Reid
> (D-Nev.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), S. 5 will federally fund research
> on human
> embryos that supposedly are "leftover" from in vitro fertilization.
> Instead
> of promoting the adoption of these human embryos, this bill would
> require
> their death.
>
> President Bush is the first president to federally fund human
> embryonic stem
> cell research. He decided that such research could be funded so
> long as the
> cells had been obtained from embryos on or prior to August 9, 2001,
> the date
> of his announcement. Since then, the government has funded research
> on over
> 22 stem cell lines based on these embryos. However, the President's
> policy
> does not encourage the further killing of human embryos.
>
> Just as abortion is currently legal, killing human embryos this way is
> completely legal. The debate for now is about federal funding. We
> don't
> federally fund abortion even though it is legal. Likewise, we
> should not
> force U.S. taxpayers to fund research that requires the destruction of
> embryos. Last July, President Bush vetoed the same bill and the
> House upheld
> the veto. However, S. 5 would overturn the Bush policy and create a
> direct
> incentive to create and kill human embryos for research with your
> taxes!
>
> Please contact your Senators and let them know that you strongly
> oppose S.
> 5. Click here to take action now!
>
> Thank you and God bless you.
>
> Vote NO on S. 5"
> Sincerely,
>
> Tony Perkins
> President
>
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