Urgent Congressional Alert: Urge Senate to Reject Embryo-Killing Research.

WASHINGTON (July 28, 2005)--The U.S. Senate has delayed until September votes on various bills dealing with the use of human embryos in medical research.

One bill strongly opposed by National Right to Life, H.R. 810, passed the House of Representatives in May. (See June edition of National Right to Life News, page 1.) This bill would mandate federal funding of research that requires the killing of human embryos in order to obtain their stem cells. President Bush has threatened to veto the bill if the Senate also approves it.

Your help is needed! Please communicate with your two U.S. senators, urging them to oppose H.R. 810 and any other bill that would fund research that depends on the killing of human embryos.

In addition, urge them to support legislation to prohibit the creating of human embryos by cloning (the Brownback-Landrieu bill, S. 658).

You can send messages to your representatives by e-mail, telephone, fax, or U.S. mail. Details appear below.

Background

On May 24, 2005, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 810, a bill to mandate federal funding of stem cell research that requires killing human embryos. That bill is now before the Senate, along with its identical companion bill, S. 471, which is sponsored by anti-life Senators Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). This legislation is strongly opposed by President Bush (see story, page 1), and by NRLC.