In the wake of the House vote in favor of stem-cell research, the U.S. Senate is bracing for the wave of controversy to hit full force. To turn the tide in favor of life, Project 535, Concerned Women for America’s (CWA’s) volunteer lobbyist program, spent last Wednesday lobbying on multiple pieces of stem-cell and cloning legislation in the Senate.

Due to the massive amount of misinformation and lies perpetrated by the liberal left, all of these issues require drastic education.

A briefing by Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Oklahoma) Chief-of-Staff (and CWA’s former Vice President for Legislative Affairs) Michael Schwartz, armed the women with success stories of adult stem-cell treatments and the absolute failure of embryonic stem-cell treatments. They lobbied more than 70 senatorial offices with this information, urging the senators to vote against embryonic stem-cell research and encouraging them to vote for adult cord-blood stem-cell research.

A vote on the stem-cell research or cloning bills is expected soon.

You, too, can join in the fight to prevent federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research and to encourage adult stem-cell treatments: Contact your senator and urge him or her to vote against the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (S. 471),  and to vote for the Cord Blood Stem Cell Act (S. 681) and the Human Cloning Prohibition Act (S. 658). 

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A list of the bills and their descriptions follows.

The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 (S. 471)

This bill federally funds unrestricted embryonic stem-cell research.  It would encourage the destruction of embryos so that labs could receive the federal grant dollars allotted. CWA opposes this bill.

Cord Blood Stem Cell Act of 2005 (S. 681)

This bill will establish a National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Network to prepare, store and distribute human umbilical-cord-blood stem cells for the treatment of patients and to support peer-reviewed research using such cells. CWA supports this bill.

The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2005 (S. 658)

This is the only Senate cloning ban that includes both reproductive and therapeutic cloning.  Other bans only prohibit the birth of human beings by the cloning process (reproductive cloning).  This ban makes sure that humans will not be cloned for experimentation or reproduction. CWA supports this bill.