Claire
02-16-2002, 01:28 PM
Stem Cell Action Alert
URGENT
Your Senators Will be in Your State Next Week
Be Sure to Contact Them about Therapeutic Cloning!
Beginning on February 18, your Senators will be in your state for a week during the President's Day Recess. They will be working and holding meetings at their district offices. This is a terrific chance for you to urge your Senator not to ban therapeutic cloning.
Please Act NOW!
Seize this last chance to contact your Senator
directly before the Senate votes.
The debate on therapeutic cloning, which could be vital to the advancement of stem cell research, is about to come to a head. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) has introduced legislation that would ban all cloning, including therapeutic cloning; put researchers in prison; and deny patients the benefit of any treatments or cures developed from therapeutic cloning outside the United States. Hearings are underway, and the Senate will take up the legislation in March.
Use Your Home Field Advantage
Unfortunately, most Senate offices report that they have heard only from supporters of the Brownback bills, not from people who want to realize the promise of stem cell research. Please contact your Senators now to let them know that therapeutic cloning (which scientists call somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, SCNT) is vital to stem cell research and must NOT be criminalized.
Personal contact can be the most effective way to communicate. Call your Senator's district office now to see if you can arrange a face-to-face meeting with the Senator or a staff member next week. Then follow up with a fax.
Contact information:
To find district offices, go to our Web site, www.stemcellfunding.org, (http://www.stemcellfunding.org,) click on "Find Your Rep" and fill in your state's name. The Senators' contact information is at the bottom of the page.
Meeting message points:
When you get a meeting, try to make some or all of the following points.
· 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 therapeutic cloning (or somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, SCNT) should be permitted.
· 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 without causing the patient's immune system to attack and reject the therapy.
Please Let Us Know How Your Conversations Go!!
I received this message in an E-mail and want to pass it on. So lets'go guys !!!
Claire
URGENT
Your Senators Will be in Your State Next Week
Be Sure to Contact Them about Therapeutic Cloning!
Beginning on February 18, your Senators will be in your state for a week during the President's Day Recess. They will be working and holding meetings at their district offices. This is a terrific chance for you to urge your Senator not to ban therapeutic cloning.
Please Act NOW!
Seize this last chance to contact your Senator
directly before the Senate votes.
The debate on therapeutic cloning, which could be vital to the advancement of stem cell research, is about to come to a head. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) has introduced legislation that would ban all cloning, including therapeutic cloning; put researchers in prison; and deny patients the benefit of any treatments or cures developed from therapeutic cloning outside the United States. Hearings are underway, and the Senate will take up the legislation in March.
Use Your Home Field Advantage
Unfortunately, most Senate offices report that they have heard only from supporters of the Brownback bills, not from people who want to realize the promise of stem cell research. Please contact your Senators now to let them know that therapeutic cloning (which scientists call somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, SCNT) is vital to stem cell research and must NOT be criminalized.
Personal contact can be the most effective way to communicate. Call your Senator's district office now to see if you can arrange a face-to-face meeting with the Senator or a staff member next week. Then follow up with a fax.
Contact information:
To find district offices, go to our Web site, www.stemcellfunding.org, (http://www.stemcellfunding.org,) click on "Find Your Rep" and fill in your state's name. The Senators' contact information is at the bottom of the page.
Meeting message points:
When you get a meeting, try to make some or all of the following points.
· 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 therapeutic cloning (or somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, SCNT) should be permitted.
· 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 without causing the patient's immune system to attack and reject the therapy.
Please Let Us Know How Your Conversations Go!!
I received this message in an E-mail and want to pass it on. So lets'go guys !!!
Claire