Fwd: [TMIC] FYI ONLINE PETITION

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Before you sign this petition, please look into and understand Therapeutic cloning.

When my judgement day comes, If necessary, I will gladly roll my wheelchair up to the Lord Almighty and gladly say that I have never taken advantage of another human being (born or un-born) to advance my own health situation.

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-----Original Message-----From: RCookHook@... Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 12:02 PMTo: tmic-list@...Subject: [TMIC] FYI ONLINE PETITIONTHIS MIGHT STEP ON SOME TOES OF A FEW OF YOU, BUT I SUPPORT THE RESEARCHBOB Weissman, an advocate for therapeutic cloning, has developed a statespecific online petition. At this time she has collected over 1,200signatures. It would be great if we could help to increase that number.Please find attached the specific states and links to the petition, anddistribute as broadly as possible.Thank you again for all the effort people have put into this campaign. Andthank you to Cures Now for working with to develop this petition.Tricia(LETTER FOLLOWS)*****************Do you think that our government should allow its citizens to use themost promising technology available to create cures and therapies for ALS,cancer, heart disease, Parkinson¹s, Alzheimer¹s, diabetes, maculardegeneration, spinal cord injury, auto-immune or neurological diseases?Do you live in one of the following 12 states:Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, NorthCarolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia?(to get straight to the petition link, skip ahead!)There is a bill before the senate (Brownback/Landrieu Bill, s1899) thatfor the first time in the history of our nation would criminalize animportant avenue of scientific research. A small but powerful group ofreligious fundamentalists is dangerously close to passing this bill whichwould put scientists in jail for doing life-saving research. Your Senatoris considering backing this bill.We need to tell our Senators to vote against this bill.Now here comes the science part:What is this new science? It¹s called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer(SCNT), sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning or research cloning.The process is simple: they would take one of your cells and put it into anunfertilized egg. This would produce stem cells that could be used toregenerate damaged tissue.We are all opposed to reproductive cloning (making babies). That shouldbe illegal. There is a bill that would ban reproductive cloning but allowlife saving research.Forty Nobel Laureates have signed a letter in support of SCNT. America¹smost respected scientific organization, the National Academy of Science,supports the continuation of embryonic stem cell research and SCNT, asdoes every major scientific or medical organization that has taken aposition on the subject.The really scary part:If the Brownback Bill passes, not only would scientists be fined amillion dollars and face up to ten years imprisonment, YOU COULD TOO. Ifthey develop a cure in one of the many foreign countries that are nowpursuing this research and you went there to be treated, you could be finedand jailed when you returned to the United States.For more information please refer to the following web sites:www.nih.gov, www.camradvocacy.org, or the site from which this letteroriginates: www.CuresNow.org. This letter is not asking you for money; it isasking you to educate yourself and it is asking you to give the mostpowerful thing you possess: your voice.Please sign the petition to urge your Senator to say NO to this bill.Please cut & paste & email this letter to everyone you know in yourstate and everywhere so that they may have the chance to decide to raisetheir voice in the fight for science.PLEASE REMEMBER TO FORWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AFTER YOUHAVE GONE TO THE SITE TO SIGN THE PETITION!This only works if you push it along!-TENNESSEE http://www.petitiononline.com/tenn/petition.html-VIRGINIA http://www.petitiononline.com/warner/petition.html-INDIANA http://www.petitiononline.com/indiana/petition.html-TEXAS http://www.petitiononline.com/texas/petition.html-COLORADO http://www.petitiononline.com/colorado/petition.html-NEW MEXICO http://www.petitiononline.com/newmex/petition.html-ARIZONA http://www.petitiononline.com/arizona/petition.html-GEORGIA http://www.petitiononline.com/georgia/petition.html-NORTH CAROLINA http://www.petitiononline.com/ncarolin/petition.html-OREGON http://www.petitiononline.com/oregon/petition.html-MAINE http://www.petitiononline.com/maine/petition.html-MONTANA http://www.petitiononline.com/montana/petition.htmlThere are also petitions for:-WEST VIRGINIA http://www.petitiononline.com/virginia/petition.html-CONNECTICUT http://www.petitiononline.com/connecti/petition.html-FLORIDA http://www.petitiononline.com/FLno1899/petition.html-UTAH http://www.petitiononline.com/utah/petition.htmlThese states are not on the "target" list at this time, but theseSenators would sure appreciate you support!If you do not see your state on this list, please go towww.camradvocacy.org, where you can send a letter to your Senatoreasily!-----------------------------------------------------------------------