Congressmen vote against stem cell research
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 3:21 PM PDT
El Dorado Hills Telegraph - Folsom,CA,USA
Two of our representatives to Congress from Northern California voted against government funding of stem cell research. They are Rep. John Doolittle (R, District 4) and Rep. Dan Lundgren (R, District 3).
This research with blastocysts, undifferentiated one-hundred-cell organisms which are not going to live, promises to help with diseases of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, and cerebral palsy. President Bush vetoed this bill, which had majority support in the House and the Senate. He had never vetoed any bill during his entire presidency.
Stephen Hawking, the world's leading physicist, who has a chronic disabling disease, wrote a public letter asking the other freedom-loving governments of the world to disregard President Bush's example. In order to override this veto, vote for Bill Durston, M.D., an emergency room physician, campaigning for the Congressional seat in District 3 and for Lt. Colonel Charlie Brown, a retired U.S. Air Force rescue pilot, running for the Congressional seat in District 4.
Scientific research, conducted with ethical controls and peer-review, is far preferable to doing nothing while pandering to know-nothing fanatics of the left or right.
John C. Chendo
Davis
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