New Poll Shows Americans Still Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding.

Here is the Nevada LIFE news release to the major Nevada Media June 1, 2006 regarding the upcoming Senate vote to overturn President Bush's Embryonic Stem Cell Research Policy.  Read the Nevada LIFE policy briefing on this legislation.

 

New Poll Shows Americans Still Oppose Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding.

 

For Immediate Release  June 1, 2006

Contact Don Nelson, Nevada LIFE

·        Proposed Expansion Opens Door To Unethical Human Experimentation

·        Every Nevada Congressman Supports Expansion 

 

The following statement can be attributed to Nevada LIFE President Don Nelson:

 

A new International Communications Research poll shows that Americans oppose federal funding of research that kills human embryos for research by 48% to 39%.  This is in direct opposition to legislation passed by the Congress (H.R. 810) last year to overturn President Bush’s embryonic stem cell research policy.  That policy opposes federal funding of research on human embryos killed after August 9, 2001.  Every Nevada Congressman voted for this unpopular legislation to significantly expand federal funding of human embryo killing for research.  Their votes “take us” as President Bush says, “across a critical ethical line by creating new incentives for the ongoing destruction of emerging human life.”  The proposed expansion opens the door to fetal farming and unethical human experimentation.

 

Some polls indicate support for public funding of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR).  Those polls are so fraudulently biased that even President Bush would end up supporting legislation to overturn his own funding policy.  When respondents discover that scientists disagree on whether embryonic or non embryonic stem cells may be more successful in treating diseases, 57% favor funding research that does not harm the donor; only 24% favored funding all stem cell research, including ESCR. 

 

Nevada’s Congressmen should not be misled by irresponsible hyping of ESCR.  There are over 65 non-ESCR successes and more than 300 human trials in progress.  This research poses no moral objections and progress been made with heart disease, Parkinson’s, and curing diabetes in mice.  Some paralyzed women have begun to walk with braces.  There are NO embryonic stem cell successes.  There are NO human trials after years of research.  Results in Korea trumpeted by leading American science journals, and still cited by the BBC, were fraudulent.  Those researchers face criminal charges.

 

The Senate will pass a version of HR 810 this summer.  Nevada’s Congressmen must switch their votes to uphold President Bush’s expected veto so that they don’t waste taxpayer money on unproductive, morally objectionable research that crosses an ethical line and opens the door to fetal farming and unethical human experimentation.

 

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