Government to ban research

Do you think that our government should allow its citizens to use the most promising technology available to create cures and therapies for ALS, cancer, heart disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, macular degeneration, 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, North Carolina, 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) that for the first time in the history of our nation would criminalize an important avenue of scientific research. A small but powerful group of religious fundamentalists is dangerously close to passing this bill which would put scientists in jail for doing life-saving research. Your Senator is 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? It’s 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 an
unfertilized egg. This would produce stem cells that could be used to
regenerate damaged tissue.

We are all opposed to reproductive Cloning (making babies). That should be
illegal. There is a bill that would ban reproductive Cloning but allow life saving research.

Forty Nobel Laureates have signed a letter in support of SCNT. America’s
most respected scientific organization, the National Academy of Science,
supports the continuation of embryonic stem cell research and SCNT, as
does every major scientific or medical organization that has taken a position on the subject.

The really scary part:

If the Brownback Bill passes, not only would scientists be fined and face
up to ten years imprisonment, YOU COULD TOO. If they develop a cure in one
Of the many foreign countries that are now pursuing this research and you
went there to be treated, you could be fined and jailed when you returned to
the United States.

For more information please refer to the following web sites: www.nih.gov,
www.stemcellfunding.org, or the site from which this letter originates:
www.CuresNow.org. This letter is not asking you for money; it is asking
you to educate yourself and it is asking you to give the most powerful 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 your state and everywhere so that they may have the chance to decide to raise their voice in the fight for science.

PLEASE REMEMBER TO FORWARD THIS LETTER TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW AFTER YOU HAVE
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.html

There 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.html

These states are not on the "target" list at this time, but these Senators would sure appreciate you support!

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