Christian Coalition Urges Senate to Delay Embryonic Stem Cell Vote

[Bluebear]

Hello, what happened to the phrase "fair up-or-down vote???


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Contact: Michele Combs, Director of Communication for the Christian Coalition, 202-549-6257, 202-479-6900

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Christian Coalition of America urges Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to delay the Senate vote on the bill allowing federal tax dollars to be used on human embryo stem cell destruction -- the Castle-DeGette bill passed earlier this summer in the U.S. House of Representatives sponsored by Senator Arlen Specter -- because of promising exciting breakthroughs in production of large amounts of embryonic like stem cells from umbilical cord blood. This breakthrough should effectively stop the unethical research resulting in the killing of human embryos.

An international team of American and British scientists said that the embryonic like cells -- called cord-blood-derived-embryonic like stem cells or CBEs -- have the ability to transform into any kind of body tissue, just as embryonic stem cells do. They also said that they could be mass-produced using technology derived from NASA. Today, Harvard scientists announced possible long-term successes from research fusing adult skin cells with embryonic stem cells leading to the creation of useful stem cells without first having to create and destroy human embryos.

Roberta Combs, President of the Christian Coalition of America said, "Now there is no reason for the Senate leadership to schedule a vote this year, or ever, on the bill forcing taxpayers to pay for the immoral destruction of human embryos, after the exciting announcement of promising cord blood research. A majority of the American people in a published poll in May (52%) oppose federal funding for this gruesome research while only 36% of the American people support such funding. Not only has such human embryo destruction research produced no results whatsoever, it now is unnecessary."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cc0822.htm

[TheFarseer]

1. What would be the point of that?

Are they urging a FILIBUSTER. Stem cells deserve an up or down vote. That's what the framers of the constitution intended!

[Bluebear]

2. I would love to see her "published poll"

showing such a low number of Americans favor this research.

[ironman202]

3. not when they're going to lose...