Call your Senator

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Hi all,

This morning I received the message below about medical research.

I urge you to read this information as there is so much false and/or misleading

"information" flying around right now. The new Senate Bill S.

2439, IS a Bipartisan Bill and it is backed by people who truly believe

in saving lives such as Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Arlen Specter (R-PA),

Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Kennedy (D-MA). If you follow

politics at all, you must know that these people do not always agree and

are often at complete opposite ends of politics. Yet they agree that

this Bill will stop ALL reproductive cloning (cloning of a human being)

and still allow individual human cells to be grown. Since the Bill

bans growing the cells in any womb or even an artificial womb, the cells

can NOT become as human being as is claimed by false advertising on TV

at the present time. Take the time to read about the debate - remember

that these cells MUST have all the chemicals supplied by a womb

to become a human. Giving them the two or three chemicals needed

to become a specific type of brain cell does not even mean they could become

a complete brain. At best, we hope they could repair several types

of brain cells by replacing dead cells they found in the brain and taking

leftover info from the dead cells to grow into that type of cell.

S. 2439 STOPS cloning of humans, but allows cloning of certain human

cells to save lives - please support this anti-cloning Bill.

Take care, Bill Werre

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Urgent! Action Alert

MAY 8TH CALL YOUR SENATORS

The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research is Coordinating

a Call-Your-Senators Day – May 8th

Call the Capitol Switchboard at

Thank you for all of your hard work, but we cannot stop now.

The Senate will vote in the next few weeks on legislation that would ban

somatic cell nuclear transfer technology (SCNT, sometimes called therapeutic

cloning). The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR)

is coordinating a Call-Your-Senators Day, May 8th. Please spread

the word and ask your friends and family to call the Capitol Switchboard

at , and ask to speak with your Senators’ office. Tell

them why you believe SCNT research must be allowed to continue.

As you know, the Senate has already held hearings on S. 1899, a bill

by Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Senator Landrieu (D-LA) that would

ban all cloning including

SCNT; put researchers in prison; and deny patients the benefit of any

therapies developed from therapeutic cloning outside the United States.

This week, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Arlen Specter (R-PA), Dianne

Feinstein (D-CA) and Kennedy (D-MA) have joined together to sponsor

S. 2439, legislation that would ban reproductive cloning to create children,

but permit privately funded research involving SCNT. This legislation

is widely supported among scientific, medical, and patient groups.

The Senate may vote on this bill as well.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

Two Steps:

1. Click <http://www.camradvocacy.org/> to be taken to the

website of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research.

This site will provide background information on the

current debate.

2. Coordinate with your friends and family to call the Capitol

Switchboard, , on May 8th and urge your Senators to SUPPORT

S. 2439, THE

SPECTER/FEINSTEIN/HATCH/KENNEDY BILL AND OPPOSE S. 1899, THE BROWNBACK/LANDRIEU

BILL, which will criminalize potentially life-saving medical

research.

Make your support of SCNT known!!!!!

Message

points for your call:

· Somatic cell

nuclear transfer (SCNT) is not the science fiction you see in movies, but

rather a reasonable and appropriate way to alleviate the horrors faced

by patients suffering from deadly and painful diseases.

· Cloning is widely

used, vital medical tool that has allowed scientists and researchers to

develop powerful new drugs; produce insulin and useful bacteria in the

lab; track the origins of biological weapons; catch criminals and

free innocent people; and produce new plants and livestock to help feed

an undernourished world population.

· The nation’s leading

scientists, including two prestigious committees of the National Academy

of Sciences, agree that cloning to reproduce humans should be illegal,

but that SCNT (or therapeutic cloning) should be permitted.

· SCNT is a research

technique to develop cells that can be used to treat or cure chronic and

degenerative diseases and disorders. The process has nothing to do

with sexual

reproduction. Its sole purpose is research to meet

unmet medical needs.

· By moving stem cell

research forward, SCNT could bring new hope to the nearly 100 million Americans

who suffer from cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, hepatitis, Parkinson’s disease

and other devastating conditions for which treatments must still be found.

· SCNT allows a patient’s

own genetic material to be used to develop advanced stem cell therapies.

These therapies—including transplants and transfusions-- would be tailored

to

match each patient’s specific medical condition and dramatically

reduce the possibility of causing the patient’s immune system to attack

and reject the therapy.

The Brownback bill would have devastating results.

It would:

Ban SCNT, or therapeutic cloning, cutting-off

hope to millions of Americans with life-threatening diseases;

Make it illegal for U.S. citizens to seek SCNT

treatment abroad;

Send a U.S. scientist to jail for developing

SCNT therapies in a petri dish;

Make it illegal for U.S. scientists to import

SCNT therapies that were developed in other countries.