Stem Cell Research is on the move! However, there is a very "dark side" to that industry. Read "fetal farming" -
Fetus Attraction by Robert P. George. ...if you care about the rights of defenseless human beings.
[Update! This just in from
Grassfire.orgDear Toma,
Yesterday, the Senate voted on three critical bioethics bills: Santorum-Brownback: Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006 (S. 3504), Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act (S. 2754), and Taxpayer Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research on "spare" IVF embryos.
All three passed through the Senate. The first two bills passed 100-0.
The third, Human Embryo Experimentation bill (H.R.810) passed 63-37. While it is a big disappointment that this legislation passed, it is not a veto-proof margin, and indeed a better vote than many expected.
We expect the President to make good on his promise to veto this bill today. And we are asking team members to contact the White House today and offer encouragement to the President to use his veto pen on H.R. 810.
Here is the White House contact information:
comments line: 202-456-1111, or leave an email:
comments@whitehouse.gov.
Please take action today.
Also, we have included the voting results for H.R. 810. Click below to see how your Senators voted on taxpayer funding for human embryo experimentation:
http://www.grassfire.org/21/senate_vote_hr810.htmAfter reviewing the list, we encourage you to contact your Senators and let them know how you feel about the way they voted on this legislation.
Following the Senate votes, the House took up both the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006 (S. 3504), and Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act (S. 2754) under suspension of the rules.
They passed the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act, meaning it too will be heading to the President’s desk to be signed today!
The Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act (S. 2754), however did not pass. Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) fought against the bill and successfully brought it down by a vote of 273-154 claiming that the bill would distract from embryonic stem cell research.
Toma, even though HR 810 did not go as hoped, there is much to cheer about on the bioethics debate. Grassroots support was very strong yesterday, as many Senate offices were inundated with Pro-Life phone calls. Even Sen. Sam Brownback praised your efforts!
In all, we scored a huge victory with the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006 (S. 3504), and we do expect the President to veto HR 810.
Thank you for once again answering the call on these important bills, and for standing with Grassfire in the ongoing debate to protect the sanctity and dignity of human life!
Grassfire.org Alliance
P.S: Grassfire would like to surpass 1 million "Pro-Life"
petitions before the end of the year. + + To sign the Grassfire.org "Petition For Life":
http://grassfire.org/21/life.asp?PID=9349453That's the update. And that's, overall, a really good day for bio-ethics, in my humble opinion! Praise Yahweh! Thank You, Defender Yeshua! And pat yourselves on the back, too, if you've participated - with prayers and/or actions]
There is a group of industrious corporate-types and money-hungry medical research facilities in the world who, for whatever weird-to-dark reason, want to call these tiny people "tissue" and then sell their "goods" on the open market! "Blastocysts" are PEOPLE. And they have rights, too!
This Monday and Tuesday, July 17t and 18th, 2006, our Senate is going to discuss the outcome for these little ones. Many of these scientists and elected officials have been paid off by huge pharmeceutical companies to toss reasonable ethics regarding the "proper path" for genetic research.
But not if I can help it. Not if YOU can help it!
Scientifically speaking, "stem cell research" is awesome! I love it! Just DON'T CHOP UP MY BROTHER OR SISTER IN THE PROCESS!!! Ok?
It has become increasingly clear to us that, in the place of fetal tissue, we can use non-differentiated, "pluripotent" cells derived from placental tissue and umbilical cord blood. The medical community has unanimously declared these to be potent vehicles during these beginning phases of stem cell research, whereas fetal-farmed cells DO NOT offer similar potential until very advanced stages of body's formation. (I said that. I just put it in block quotes so skeptics would read it.)
MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR THOSE LITTLE ONES -
Grassfire.net (NOT .org!)
Hopped on Senator Coleman's site Thursday... wrote him a little note:
Dear Senator Coleman,
I'm simply deeply concerned that you cast your vote for the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006 (S.3504),
and against any Taxpayer Funding for Human Embryo Experimentation (H.R.810)
Hopefully you know by now that farming human babies for stem cell research is not necessary as other "easily accessible" methods exist for such valuable research and medical breakthrough.
Thank you,
Just an idea. Act now for the
little ones.
- - - - - ALSO IN THE NEWS :: ISRAEL AT WAR! - - - - -
How to "pray for the Peace of Jerusalem" (Psalm 122)?
1. Pray for the safety and rescue/return of the 3 Israeli soldiers held hostage by Hamas (Gil'ad Shalit, 19 years old) and Hezbollah (Ehud Goldwasser, 31 years old; Eldad Regev, 26 years old) .
2. Hezbollah has traditionally turned to hostage taking, an old Middle Eastern strategy when the going gets tough. Pray for the safety and evacuation of 25,000 US citizens and other Westerners now in Beirut.
3. Sheikh Nasrallah declared yesterday that "we are going to an open war on Israel." Hezbollah has long-range terror capabilities. It has carried out kidnappings and torture of top CIA officials in the 1980's; Beirut suicide truck bombing in 1983 that killed 304 Americans and wounded 200; the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in Beirut; the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires (29 killed); and the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center in the same city (95 killed). Ask God to send His angels to foil and frustrate any satanic Hezbollah terror plots around the world.
4. The Islamic world has used an oil embargo against the West in order to punish it for standing with Israel. Pray that God would give Western leaders holy courage and divine strategies on how to deal with oil warfare.
5. Protection for Israeli soldiers involved in the battle, and especially for those Messianic Jewish believers who are presently involved in the fighting. Also pray for protection for Israeli civilians from rocket attacks.
Stem Cell Research: Fetal Rights Now (vlog80)
