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February 28, 2006

Dear Pro-Life Friends:

We just learned that Bill S 1471 has been scheduled for a hearing on Monday, March 6 at 1 p.m. before the Senate Budget Committee in Trenton. The hearing will be held in Committee Room 4, 1st Floor of the State House Annex. This is one of several "stem cell" bills that will be moving. Please see below for more information on bill S1471. Please let me know if you can testify in opposition to this bill or if you know any patient advocates who are against embryonic stem cell research and would like to testify against this bill. We also welcome the attendance of committed pro-lifers who would like to just be present at the hearing as a sign of support for our position.

Please get back to me mtasy@njrtl.org by Friday, March 3rd to let me know whether you will testify and/or plan to attend the hearing.

Thank you,

Marie Tasy

Urgent! Bill S1471 Reintroduced - Will Be Fast-Tracked.

Contact your State Senator and Two Assembly Members Immediately!

Take Action (here)

Bill S1471 was introduced by Senate President Richard Codey and Senator Barbara Buono on 2/27/06. The bill will authorize $150M from cigarette tax revenue bonds by the NJEDA to fund a Stem Cell Institute in New Brunswick, NJ affiliated with the embattled UMDNJ and another $50M for biomedical research facilities in Camden, NJ called the Systems Biology Institute. The Camden facilitiy would be part of the Rutgers-Camden campus and will be associated with the Coriell Institute for Medical Reserach and the Cancer Institute of NJ. According to various reports, the bill will be fast-tracked so immediate action is needed now! You can send a pre-written message to your State Senator and two Assembly members from this page by going to the "Take Action" box.
Please also call your State Senator and two Assembly members without delay and urge them to vote No on S1471. You can get their numbers by calling the Office of Legislative Services at 1-800-792-8630 or going to the NJ Legislature's webpage.
Under NJ law which established the framework for the type of research these facilities are authorized to perform, egregious human rights abuses in the name of medical research will be permitted which include the cloning and killing of human beings through the embryo, fetal, and newborn stages. The bill authorizes cloning through "somatic cell nuclear transplantation," the same process used to clone Dolly the Sheep. Although the bill purports to ban fetal trafficking, it allows "reasonable payment" for the "removal, processsing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue."

Please visit our website and Legislative Action Center here for more information
E-mail the Sponsors of the bill and the Governor

SenCodey@njleg.org, SenBuono@njleg.org, SenBryant@njleg.org

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Contact your State Senator and Two Assembly Members Immediately! Take Action (here)


Bill S1471 was introduced by Senate President Richard Codey and Senator Barbara Buono on 2/27/06. The bill will authorize $150M from cigarette tax revenue bonds by the NJEDA to fund a Stem Cell Institute in New Brunswick, NJ affiliated with the embattled UMDNJ and another $50M for biomedical research facilities in Camden, NJ called the Systems Biology Institute. The Camden facilitiy would be part of the Rutgers-Camden campus and will be associated with the Coriell Institute for Medical Reserach and the Cancer Institute of NJ. According to various reports, the bill will be fast-tracked so immediate action is needed now! You can send a pre-written message to your State Senator and two Assembly members from this page by going to the "Take Action" box. Please also call your State Senator and two Assembly members without delay and urge them to vote No on S1471. You can get their numbers by calling the Office of Legislative Services at 1-800-792-8630 or going to the NJ Legislature's webpage. Under NJ law which established the framework for the type of research these facilities are authorized to perform, egregious human rights abuses in the name of medical research will be permitted which include the cloning and killing of human beings through the embryo, fetal, and newborn stages. The bill authorizes cloning through "somatic cell nuclear transplantation," the same process used to clone Dolly the Sheep. Although the bill purports to ban fetal trafficking, it allows "reasonable payment" for the "removal, processsing, disposal, preservation, quality control, storage, transplantation, or implantation of embryonic or cadaveric fetal tissue."