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Congress to Vote This Summer on Killing Human Embryos.(Brief Article)
Congress may vote this summer on two issues relating to the protection of human embryos. Many members of Congress are under pressure from powerful special-interest groups, including the biotechnology industry, to allow the creation and killing of human embryos for research purposes. It is vital that lawmakers hear from constituents in opposition to the killing of human embryos.
Embryo-Destructive Stem Cell Research
Since 1995, a provision of the annual Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill called the "Dickey Amendment" has prohibited federal funding of any "research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death... ."
However, some researchers wish to obtain federal funds for research in which human embryos, created in infertility laboratories by the process of in vitro fertilization, would be killed to harvest their stem cells. Stem cells are cells that have the capacity to turn into various types of specialized tissue, such as nerve or muscle tissue, which may be useful in treating many diseases.
Therefore, sometime this summer when the House of Representatives considers the HHS appropriations bill for fiscal year 2002, anti-life forces will probably seek to prevent renewal of the Dickey Amendment. A close vote is expected in the House on this question.
In addition, Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) and Congressman Jim McDermott (D-Wa.) have introduced anti-life legislation (S. 723, H.R. 2059) that would actually require federal funding of embryo-destructive stem cell research.
Thus, it is important for lawmakers to hear from constituents who support extension of the current ban on federal funding of embryo-destructive research. In a national poll conducted in early June by International Communications Research, the public opposed federal funding of stem cell research in which "live embryos would be destroyed in their first week of development," by a margin of 70% to 24%.
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