U.S. Senate Human Embryo/Stem Cell Debate

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This is a congressional update from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and supported by state affiliate West Virginians for Life, issued Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at 11 AM Eastern Daylight Time.

U.S. SENATE HUMAN EMBRYO / STEM-CELL DEBATE WILL OCCUR JULY 17-18

WASHINGTON (July 12, 2006) -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tn.) this morning announced that the Senate will begin debate on three bills dealing with stem cell research and related issues on Monday, July 17, and will vote on all three bills by Tuesday, July 18.

The three bills will be considered under the terms of an agreement that was described in NRLC's alert of July 6. The agreement provides for a maximum of 12 hours of debate on the three bills. No amendments are in order to any of the bills. Any of the bills that receives 60 votes will be passed; any of the bills that fails to obtain 60 votes will be dead for the year.

The three bills will be considered in this order:

(1) S. 3504, the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, sponsored by Senators Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), Sam Brownback (R-Ks.), and others, 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 certain tissues for transplantation. NRLC supports this legislation.

(2) S. 2754, the Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act, sponsored by Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and others, 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). The bill does not endorse any particular method, and does not allow funding of any research that would create or harm human embryos. NRLC supports this legislation.

(3)  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. NRLC strongly opposes this legislation.



    ACTION ITEM: All senators should be encouraged to vote against H.R. 810, and in favor of the ban on fetus farming (S. 3504) and the ethical-alternatives bill (S. 2754). Tell your senators Byrd and Rockefeller that you are in favor of research, but not the kinds of research that require the killing of human embryos.  To email them, click on the following:

byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html

rockefeller.senate.gov/services/email.cfm

    For further details, go to the Legislative Action Center at the NRLC website, here.

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