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November 20, 2007

Human Skin Cells Do What Embryonic Stem Cells Can't

This 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...

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October 24, 2007

Medved Kind Of States The Obvious (Guiliani more pro-life than Dems)...But Worth Reading

Michael 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...

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October 19, 2007

Live Video - Washington Briefing 2007

ProLifeNews.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.

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October 5, 2007

Monthly Call for Life

It'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.

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June 7, 2007

U.S. House turns back stealth attempt by Democratic leadership to pass "clone-and-kill" bill

WASHINGTON (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...

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April 16, 2007

The reality of egg donation

To 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...

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March 9, 2007

Hatch and Feinstein push for human cloning

While 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...

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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...

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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,...

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February 21, 2007

Human eggs for sale

As 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...

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December 22, 2006

Cloning Benefits Oversold

By 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...

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December 16, 2006

Human Harvesting for Stem Cells Begins in Ukraine

The 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...

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November 2, 2006

Scientists' Open Letter: Missouri's Amendment 2 Authorizes Human Cloning

From 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...

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A Diabetic on Michael J. Fox and Missouri Amendment 2

By 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,...

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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....

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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...

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October 24, 2006

Responding to Michael J. Fox

The 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...

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October 19, 2006

Missouri's Amendment 2 is 2Tricky

The 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...

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October 11, 2006

Governor Granholm Lies During Debate on Prolife Issues

Last 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...

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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...

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October 10, 2006

World Gone Mad

Two 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...

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October 6, 2006

Scientific Experimentation without Limits

UK 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...

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September 21, 2006

What Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer is and what it isn't

From 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...

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August 15, 2006

Clone the Truth #16

Here 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...

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July 26, 2006

Governor Granholm using state's website to lobby for bills to legalize human cloning

In 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...

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July 25, 2006

The "embryos" only have us - Now is time for action

Isn'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.

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June 30, 2006

Another 'Miracle' Found Wanting

By 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...

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June 7, 2006

Cloning to Kill

Harvard experimenters are admitting that they are creating human embryonic life for the purpose of destroying it. - Wesley J. Smith...

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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. )...

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April 10, 2006

Tax Funding for Cloning is all about the Profits

California'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...

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March 30, 2006

Clone the Truth #14

Once 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...

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February 17, 2006

Stem Cell Questions in Missouri

Missouri’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?...

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Korean Govt Says Hwang Never Cloned Stem Cells

From 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...

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February 13, 2006

Illinois Remains the Wild West of Human Cloning

Three 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...

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February 6, 2006

Clone the Truth #12

I 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...

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February 1, 2006

Morally challenged cloning research

The 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...

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January 27, 2006

Clone the Truth #11

Boy, 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...

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January 26, 2006

Governor Granholm wants human cloning to come to Michigan

During 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...

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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...

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Clone the Truth #9

Yet, 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...

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January 13, 2006

Clone the Truth #6

Here 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...

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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...

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January 11, 2006

Clone the Truth #5

The 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...

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How cloning exploits women: Scientist forced to donate, dissect own eggs

Junior 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,...

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January 10, 2006

Announcing the "Clone the Truth" Campaign

Whereas 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,...

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Cloning Spin Cycle 101

According 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...

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December 29, 2005

Hwang Out to Dry

A 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?...

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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...

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December 18, 2005

SCNT Defined

We are not Nazis. We should not be mad scientists who kill other humans for our own benefit.

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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...

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November 22, 2005

More Ethical Abuses in South Korean Cloning Research

This 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...

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November 16, 2005

Cloning - The Real Story

Human 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?...

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November 3, 2005

Human Cloning Ban Vetoed

Wisconsin 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...

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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...

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October 20, 2005

One Copy is Sufficient

Supporters 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...

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September 28, 2005

Comprehensive Human Cloning Ban Passes Senate

The 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...

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Wisconsin Senate to Pass Cloning Ban

The 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)...

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September 26, 2005

Comprehensive Human Cloning Ban and Cord Blood Donation Bill to Receive Senate Vote Tomorrow

The 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....

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September 22, 2005

Wisconsin Pro-Life Legislators Promote Life through Multiple Bills

Although 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...

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