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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 Family Research Council: 801 G Street N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001 P: 202/393-2100 or 800/225-4008 W: frc.org unsubscribe You are subscribed to Grassroots Alerts as [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn