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November 20, 2007 Human Skin Cells Do What Embryonic Stem Cells Can'tThis work represents...the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers' first airplane...It's a bit like learning how to turn lead into gold.Once again proving that Connecticut, New York, California and New Jersey have just soaked their residents with multibillions of tax-dollar-funded...Posted by annie | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack October 24, 2007 Medved Kind Of States The Obvious (Guiliani more pro-life than Dems)...But Worth ReadingMichael Medved on Guiliani being more pro-life than Democrat Presidential candidates:Personally, I disagree with Giuliani on abortion. I am unhesitatingly pro-life, and I yearn for the Supreme Court to overturn the monstrous abomination of Roe v. Wade. Even so, whatever...Posted by annie | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 19, 2007 Live Video - Washington Briefing 2007ProLifeNews.tv is broadcasting live video throughout the day from Washington D.C., where the Washington Briefing 2007 is being held. The Briefing, an annual event sponsored by the Family Research Council in Washington D.C., is largest gathering of Values Voters from across the nation. Personalities include, all the Republican Presidential candidates, Laura Ingraham, James Dobson, Tony Perkins & many many more. All the speeches are including discussions about abortion, embryonic stem cell research, family values, religion in America and many other topics important to conservatives in America. Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 5, 2007 Monthly Call for LifeIt's the first Friday of the month & it's time to call for life! We need to call our representatives on a regular basis and challenge them to oppose abortion and human killing research, like embryonic stem cell research and cloning. Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 7, 2007 U.S. House turns back stealth attempt by Democratic leadership to pass "clone-and-kill" billWASHINGTON (June 6, 2007) -- The U.S. House of Representatives today rejected a bill, deceptively labeled as a ban on human cloning, that actually would have allowed large-scale cloning of human embryos solely for purposes of research. The National Right...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack April 16, 2007 The reality of egg donationTo keep the wheels of the cloning and embryonic stem cell research turning, researchers need eggs, lots of human eggs. Many young women do not realize the risks of donating or selling their eggs. These risks include loss of fertility...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack March 9, 2007 Hatch and Feinstein push for human cloningWhile Senators Hatch and Feinstein want you to believe that they are for banning human cloning, they are actually trying to make sure that human cloning remains legal in the U.S. at the federal level. They have introduced the The...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack March 6, 2007 Chicago Tribune: "The incredible, sellable egg"Sunday's Chicago Tribune included a front page, above- and below-the-fold article on the "booming" human egg "donation" business. Women are being paid $5k-$13k and up to $100k for 15-20 eggs and are using the money to pay off loans and...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack February 26, 2007 Think human cloning and genetic engineering are just for science fiction? Think again!Human reproductive cloning and genetic engineering are surely stuff of science fiction. And only science fiction right? Certainly, the reality of the Brave New World would never leap off the page and enter the real world. Think again. In fact,...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack February 21, 2007 Human eggs for saleAs liberal legislators across the country promote taxpayer funded embryonic stem cell/cloning experimentation, a main argument is there are leftover embryos in in vitro fertilization clinics they can see put to good use that would otherwise be discarded. We...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 22, 2006 Cloning Benefits OversoldBy Dave Andrusko Some stories you read online are essentially written in snippets. Since thoughts are not developed and/or are compacted, when it comes to our issue, the story comes across as both very helpful and very unhelpful. Timesonline.com offered...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 16, 2006 Human Harvesting for Stem Cells Begins in UkraineThe BBC is reporting that healthy new-born babie appear to have been killed in order to harvest stem cells for the flourish stem cell trade that has begun in the country. Dr. Hwang Woo-Sook was found last year to have...Posted by john | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 2, 2006 Scientists' Open Letter: Missouri's Amendment 2 Authorizes Human CloningFrom Lifenews.com: November 2, 2006 Open Letter from Experts in Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics on the Cloning Provisions of Missouri's Amendment 2 A key question regarding Missouri's proposed Amendment 2 is: Would this constitutional amendment prohibit or promote "human...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack A Diabetic on Michael J. Fox and Missouri Amendment 2By Anita Crane November 2, 2006 Michael J. Fox breaks my heart. I'm sad to see him suffer with Parkinson's disease—but sadder to realize that someone has given him false hope about human embryonic stem cell research. In his Maryland,...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 27, 2006 MJFox: Explain what would be "criminalize[d]"Michael J. Fox stated in his now infamous McKaskill for Missouri ad, "Senator Talent even wanted to criminalize the science that gives us a chance for hope." Explain what that science is, Michael. It's human cloning....Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack FRC Webcast "Missouri: The 'Clone-Me' State? The Politics Of Cloning And Stem Cells,"The Family Research Council is doing a webcast about the Missouri embryonic stem cell debate at 11:00 am . Click here to go to the website for more information...Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 24, 2006 Responding to Michael J. FoxThe State of Missouri has a ballot measure called "Amendment 2" that will create a constitutional right to conduct human cloning should it pass. Proponents of the measure have brought in Michael J. Fox to sell the initiative to...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 19, 2006 Missouri's Amendment 2 is 2TrickyThe upcoming vote on Missouri's Amendment 2 is very important. What is Amendment 2? It is a proposed amendment to the Missouri state constitution that claims it bans human cloning. It would do no such thing. Amendment 2 actually creates...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack October 11, 2006 Governor Granholm Lies During Debate on Prolife IssuesLast night, I switched back and forth between Michigan's second gubernatorial debate and the Detroit Tigers' win (yeah!) over the Oakland Athletics. You can listen and/or watch the debate at WOOD TV's website. Towards the end of the debate, Granholm...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack New Stanek WND column: "What lies beneath: MO's titanic stem cell initiative"Consider the iceberg: Only the tip is visible. Such is the short Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative to be voted on next month. Beneath it looms a titanic constitutional amendment. Amendment Two, as it is called, is...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 10, 2006 World Gone MadTwo great guest posts at Steve Ertelt's LifeNews illustrate the schizophrenic thinking of our world system. Wesley Smith reports on how the bioethical ground is already being prepared for reproductive cloning, while on another front, despite evidence that birthrates are...Posted by papijoe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 6, 2006 Scientific Experimentation without LimitsUK scientists have applied for approval to clone using rabbit eggs. FRCBlog explains that these folks will use the basic cloning process called "somatic cell nuclear transfer." But instead of transferring the nucleus of a human somatic (body) cell into...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 21, 2006 What Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is and what it isn'tFrom my experience, proponents of human cloning for research (also referred to as "therapeutic cloning") are often not 100% accurate in describing what somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is. SCNT is, as the President's Council on Bioethics says, "the technique...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack August 15, 2006 Clone the Truth #16Here is another article for Clone the Truth out of the embattled state of Missouri. No surprise that this one is from the Kansas City Star. Different byline, same misleading euphemisms: Dear Mr. Hoover, I am writing to inform you...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack July 26, 2006 Governor Granholm using state's website to lobby for bills to legalize human cloningIn a sad display of political posturing, Governor Jennifer Granholm is using the web site of Michigan's government to promote her political agenda, take a cheap shot at President Bush and Republicans in general, and encourage visitors to lobby government...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack July 25, 2006 The "embryos" only have us - Now is time for actionIsn't that immoral? On the contrary, they say it is more moral do it and compare women who kill their children to heros: In such circumstances, selective pregnancy reduction could be regarded as a moral decision aimed at optimizing the quality of life after birth. Furthermore, given the heart-rendering nature of the decision, selective pregnancy reduction might even be considered laudable. Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack June 30, 2006 Another 'Miracle' Found WantingBy Dave Andrusko"Without independent, long-term evaluations of his patients, it is impossible to know how they are faring, or what difference -- for better or ill -- the treatments make. Without this information, there is no way that patients can...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack June 7, 2006 Cloning to KillHarvard experimenters are admitting that they are creating human embryonic life for the purpose of destroying it. - Wesley J. Smith...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack June 6, 2006 Cloning, eugenics and the destruction of life.... this post has it all. (One of the scientists involved in the first cloned sheep would like to see the technology used to produce a superior child. )...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack April 10, 2006 Tax Funding for Cloning is all about the ProfitsCalifornia's Prop 71 was a real con job. Somehow CA voters were dupped into spending 3 billion dollars just on research into cloning embryos for spare parts. Adult stem cell research probably won't get a dime. Nevermind that no one...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack March 30, 2006 Clone the Truth #14Once again from the Kansas City Star so I am surely not expecting a reply, but I had to write them a Clone the Truth letter anyway: Dear Reader's Representative, I am writing to inform you of errors in terminology...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack February 17, 2006 Stem Cell Questions in MissouriMissouri’s cloning war came to the Capitol on Thursday when two Washington University scientists wrangled over research on early stem cells and the laboratory techniques used to grow them. The Kansas City Star reports the essense of their debate:The conclusion?...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack Korean Govt Says Hwang Never Cloned Stem CellsFrom LifeNews Government prosecutors investigating the faked embryonic stem cell research supposedly conducted by Hwang Woo-suk and his colleagues have confirmed that his team never created patient-specific embryonic stem cells that would supposedly overcome rejection issues. Park Han-cheol of Seoul...Posted by papijoe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack February 13, 2006 Illinois Remains the Wild West of Human CloningThree Illinois public policy organizations held a press conference today to protest last week’s unilateral hold-up by state Rep. William Delgado (D- 3rd District, Chicago) of House Bill 4156, which would halt taxpayer funding of human cloning in Illinois and...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack February 6, 2006 Clone the Truth #12I hate to kick Seattle while they are down, but here is one for Clone the Truth from the Seattle Post Intelligencer. This description of SCNT is so bad, it was hard to know where to begin. As this was...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack February 1, 2006 Morally challenged cloning researchThe headline was buried in the Jan. 21 NewScience article reporting another potential scandal in the cloning world. This one involved claims made in 2003 by researcher Hui-Zhen Sheng of China, who reported he had successfully harvested embryonic stem...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 27, 2006 Clone the Truth #11Boy, the Kansas City Star has an agenda. Without fail, everytime I read one of their articles it has errors. Here is another one for Clone the Truth. Here is my letter: Dear Mr. Kraske, I am writing to inform...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 26, 2006 Governor Granholm wants human cloning to come to MichiganDuring her recent State of the State address to the citizens of Michigan, Governor Jennifer Granholm called on Michigan's legislature to pass a bill that would not only legalize non-therapeutic research on human embryos but would also legalize human cloning...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 20, 2006 Redefining the Cloned Embryo (or Dolly was not a REAL Sheep)In my quest to have the news media correctly describe somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) or cloning, and the resulting debates on terminology, I have come to a conclusion. I predict that in 2006 or shortly thereafter, the embryo will...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Clone the Truth #9Yet, another one for Clone the Truth. Once again from Missouri. Here is the article and here is my letter: Dear Editors, I am writing to inform you of a error in terminology in Alan Scher Zagier's article titled, "Missouri...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack January 13, 2006 Clone the Truth #6Here is another one for the Clone the Truth campaign. This one's from embattled Missouri. Here is my letter: Dear News Director, There are several misrepresentations in your story "Cloning Scandal May Affect Mo. Stem-Cell Debate" dated 1/12/06 found on...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack January 12, 2006 No human eggs for cloning? Just use animal eggs.As I have said before, because of the expense and the shortage of human eggs for cloning, researchers will push for the use of egg from animals like cows or rabbits. Here is an article from the BBC that proposes...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack January 11, 2006 Clone the Truth #5The New York Times just doesn't get it... I have received this reply from the New York Times on my letter from Clone the Truth #4: Dear Ms. Taylor: Thank you for your note about cloning, a word that is...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack How cloning exploits women: Scientist forced to donate, dissect own eggsJunior scientist Park Eul-soon suffered the most personally devastating blunder of her career when in 2003 she accidentally spilled a dish of human eggs while conducting experiments in the South Korean lab of then-clone king Hwang Woo-suk. For that mishap,...Posted by jill stanek | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack January 10, 2006 Announcing the "Clone the Truth" CampaignWhereas I am tired of reading half truths, and outright lies about cloning and embryonic stem cell research in the media and… Whereas I am sick of the media refering to an embryo, cloned or otherwise, as a fertilized egg,...Posted by rebecca | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack Cloning Spin Cycle 101According to a panel of South Korean researchers, Hwang Woo-Suk used more than 2000 human eggs and was never able to create a human embryo thru cloning even though his government provided his lab with $65 million. Evidence indicates that...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 29, 2005 Hwang Out to DryA panel of South Korean scientists have concluded that Hwang Woo-Suk has provided no data to prove that he produced patient specific cloned embryonic stem cells. Hmmm.... Where was this panel when Hwang submitted his paper to Science?...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 21, 2005 God would be in favor of human cloning?That's the position of Paula Gott, an ordained minister (it appears she makes a living by writing), whose incoherent opinion piece on how God would view stem cell research and cloning is here. Those opposed to stem cell research have...Posted by JivinJ | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 18, 2005 SCNT DefinedWe are not Nazis. We should not be mad scientists who kill other humans for our own benefit. Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack December 15, 2005 Cloner Admits Faking Data - Should we Trust Modern Scientific Research?A leading member of South Korean human cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk's research team says the embryonic stem cell research paper his team submitted to the journal Science was fabricated. The paper highlighted Hwang's team's claim that they had successfully cloned...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 22, 2005 More Ethical Abuses in South Korean Cloning ResearchThis LifeNews reports perpetuates the cover that the Koreans are doing "stem cell research" but I believe it is more to the point that the defining characteristic of their efforts is the unfettered use of "therapeutic" cloning, which is a...Posted by papijoe | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 16, 2005 Cloning - The Real StoryHuman cloning scientist Hwang Woo-Suk is denying charges that his research team violated ethical considerations when a member of it donated her eggs for the team's embryonic stem cell research So what all is wrong with that picture?...Posted by peter | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 3, 2005 Human Cloning Ban VetoedWisconsin citizens and their representatives have been busy taking noble stands on behalf of the unborn. Unfortunately, the state’s governor has a track record of vetoing anything that is pro-life. Governor James Doyle today nixed legislation that would have prohibited...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack November 2, 2005 Will Gov. Doyle Stand with the Wisconsin Legislature on Cloning Ban?AB 499, a ban on all human cloning, was passed by both houses of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Under this measure, neither public nor private entities would be allowed to engage in the creation of human clones which would be...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack October 20, 2005 One Copy is SufficientSupporters of Pro-Life Wisconsin have been calling, writing and e-mailing the Governor’s office urging him to sign AB 499, the comprehensive ban on human cloning. Many Pro-Life Wisconsin supporters have laughed at the irony of the Governor’s own website. On...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 28, 2005 Comprehensive Human Cloning Ban Passes SenateThe Wisconsin State Senate voted today to place a complete ban on human cloning in the state. Assembly Bill (AB) 499 would ban both “reproductive cloning” – where a cloned person is brought to birth, and “therapeutic cloning” – where...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack Wisconsin Senate to Pass Cloning BanThe Wisconsin State Senate made final passage of a comprehensive human cloning ban almost certain last night by defeating a "clone to kill" amendment that would have gutted the measure. Assembly Bill 499, authored by Representative Steve Kestell (R-Elkhart Lake)...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 26, 2005 Comprehensive Human Cloning Ban and Cord Blood Donation Bill to Receive Senate Vote TomorrowThe Wisconsin State Senate will take up separate bills Tuesday that would place a complete ban on human cloning and facilitate the donation of newborn umbilical cord blood in Wisconsin....Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 22, 2005 Wisconsin Pro-Life Legislators Promote Life through Multiple BillsAlthough legislation and judicial acts at the federal level often receive the most attention, it is the local level that gives pro-life individuals the greatest chance for making a difference by talking one-on-one to their neighbors and directly supporting legislation...Posted by plb | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack September 7, 2005
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