NIH Stem Cell Guidelines
MSC 7997
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-7997

To Whom It May Concern:

As one of Concerned Women for America’s over 500,000 members, I am writing today to oppose the draft guidelines proposed by the National Institutes of Health in response to President Obama’s Executive Order issued on March 9, 2009.  The proposed regulations will force taxpayers like me to subsidize unethical research that destroys human embryos.
 
Despite the millions of dollars spent on destructive embryonic stem cell research in California and elsewhere, the results have been an abject failure because embryonic stem cells tend to become deadly tumors.  Science has surpassed this unethical research, producing astonishing advances with adult stem cells and discovering ways to make embryonic-like stem cells without killing anyone.  Funding should be directed to alternatives to embryonic stem cells which are ethical and more efficient, effective, and are actually treating patients.
 
The proposed regulations create a financial incentive for the creation of more human embryos to be destroyed to obtain their embryonic stem cells.  These regulations also open the door to cloning and human/animal hybrids.

Embryonic stem cell research is destructive and outdated, and taxpayer monies should be used for ethical research that can actually treat patients.

Sincerely,