Is anyone else confused by this?
The letter we are supposed to encourage our representatives to sign is
nowhere to be found--at least, I'm not finding it. Can't urge someone to
sign what I haven't seen...
Also, PAN appears to be asking people to express support of NIH guidelines,
when what we want, as I understand it, is for NIH to amend their draft
guidelines.
Maybe people are supposed to read something between the lines here, but to
me the text is invisible.
Can anyone help?
Kathleen
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Subject: Help Needed Today--Ask Representative to Sign Stem Cell Letter!
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