Adult Stem Cell Bills in Washington |
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Adult Stem Cell Support in Washington
Adult stem cell research has produced processes being used currently in treating well over 50 diseases. Paradoxically, the media focus on the potential use of embryonic stem cells as the hope of the future, ignoring the hope that is being brought to reality for many patients in the treatments with adult stem cells.
National Right to Life has published information on bills currently being considered in Congress that relate to the issue. NRLC says: �The Senate agreed to consider H.R. 810, a bill to require federal funding of research using stem cells obtained by killing human embryos. This bill, which is strongly opposed by National Right to Life, would overturn President Bush's pro-life policy against federal funding of any research that requires the killing of human embryos.�
President Bush has said he will veto the bill if it comes to his desk. He supports research which does not cause the death of human embryos or fetuses.
About the other two bills, for which they recommend support, they say:
�S. 3504, the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, would make it a federal offense for a researcher to use tissue from a human baby who has been gestated in a woman's womb, or an animal womb, for the purpose of providing such tissue. Some researchers have already conducted such "fetus farming" experiments with animals -- for example, by gestating cloned calves to four months and then aborting them to obtain their kidney and heart tissues for transplantation.�
�S. 2754, the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act, would require the National Institutes of Health to support research to try to find methods of creating pluripotent stem cells (which are cells that can be turned into any sort of body tissue) without creating or harming human embryos.�
Additional information can be found on their website, www.nrlc.org .
July, 2006
Updated on RARTL July, 2006
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