Re: More on Senate Bill 790

[Guest guest]

Thanks for update-Our PA Senator, Arlen Spector, has spoken very emotionally

about his close personal friend with debilitating Parkinson's who lives in

Pittsburgh area. Spector's mission is to fight for a cure. Will take all

the help we can get. My 44 year old brother was pronounced in remission just

2 weeks ago, from a very rare cancer. In Oct. he was treated by a stem cell

transplant using his own cells. Rugged treatment but it worked. This bill

is significant for research in so many areas. Thanks for keeping us

updated. Cindy B.

More on Senate Bill 790

> Hi all,

>

> Senator Brownback's Bill (S. 790) to prevent ALL human cloning may come

> to a vote soon. Senator Feinstein's alternate Bill (S. 1758) " Title: A

> bill to prohibit human cloning while preserving important areas of

> medical research, including stem cell research. " would prevent human

> cloning, but allow stem cell research.

>

> Below is an article about Reeve (who rides a motor driven

> bicycle 10 miles a day three times a week while using electrical

> stimulation to move his legs in order to keep the muscles alive). He is

> fighting for stem cell research. It is important to remember that the

> only " body parts " we are talking about (in spite of the right wing

> rhetoric about body parts) is individual cells, NOT " arms, legs and

> organs " .

>

> Take care, Bill Werre

>

> Senators, Scientists, Join with Patient Advocates to Support Promising

> Medical

> Research, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (aka

> " Therapeutic Cloning " )

>

> Reeve; Senators Kennedy, Specter,

> and

> Feinstein; Nobel Prize Winner; Activists; and

> Parents

> Say SCNT Could Mean New Treatments, Cures;

> Urge

> Senate OK

>

> Washington, DC- Reeve, medical

> researchers, and patient advocates, on behalf

> of the

> Coalition for the Advancement of Medical

> Research

> (CAMR), joined today with Senators

> Kennedy

> (D-MA), Arlen Specter (R-PA), Diane Feinstein

> (D-CA),

> and others to urge the Senate to support an

> important

> research pathway, somatic cell nuclear

> transfer (SCNT),

> otherwise known as " therapeutic cloning. "

>

> " SCNT gives hundreds of millions of people

> around the world who are afflicted with a wide variety of diseases and

> disabilities exactly the kind of chance that we need, " said Reeve,

> Chairman of the Reeve Paralysis Foundation, in remarks at a

> press conference shortly before he testified at a hearing on SCNT by the

> Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

>

> Senate leaders, patient advocates, and

> prominent scientists support SCNT, because it could lead to new

> treatments and cures for the more than 100 million Americans facing

> now-incurable illnesses such as cancer, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's,

> diabetes, ALS, and spinal cord injury. Although SCNT fundamentally is

> different from reproductive cloning, drawing support from the National

> Academy of Sciences and leading doctors and medical researchers around

> the country, it would be banned under legislation that goes to the

> Senate floor in a few weeks.

>

> " For me, SCNT is about hope-the hope that

> science may find a way to help my two-year old daughter, who cannot

> walk, talk, comprehend, or use her hands because she has the incurable

> genetic disorder, Rett Syndrome, " said s , mother of

> , who spoke at the press conference.

>

> Given the scientific potential in this area,

> CAMR strongly opposes any legislative or regulatory action that would

> ban research related to SCNT. However, CAMR does support efforts to

> prohibit human reproductive cloning while protecting important areas of

> medical research, including stem cell research.

>

> The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical

> Research (CAMR) is comprised of nationally-recognized patient

> organizations, universities, scientific societies, foundations, and

> individuals with life-threatening illnesses and disorders advocating for

> the advancement of breakthrough research and technologies in

> regenerative medicine including stem cell research and somatic cell

> nuclear transfer in order to cure disease and alleviate suffering.

>

> CONTACTS

>

> Maggie Goldberg

> Director of Communications

> Reeve Paralysis Foundation

> 800/225-0292

> mgoldberg@...

>

> Tricia

> Reeve Paralysis Foundation

> 202/833-0355

> tbrooks@...

>

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