NJ Researchers Push for $1 Billion Bond Issue for NJ Clone and Kill Research, Contact Legislature

NJRTL ^ | 11.11.04

[Coleus]

November 11, 2004

 

Dear Pro-Life Friends:

 

Today's Star Ledger article (link below) reports that state debt grew $12 billion during McGreevey's three years in office.  This article appeared one day after two researchers appeared at a Press Conference in Trenton lobbying for an additional  $1 billion bond issue for the NJ Stem Cell Institute.   Please read my press release which can be found below the link to the Star Ledger article.  

Contact your two state Assembly members and State Senator and urge them to oppose this bond scheme as well as any proposal to continue taxpayer funding in the budget for the NJ Stem Cell Institute.  It's outrageous that McGreevey and Democratic leaders approved $11.5 million in this year's budget for the NJ Stem Cell Institute and these researchers are now greedily lobbying for more money!    You can find your state legislators by going to the Office of Legislative Services web page link  or call them at 1-800-792-8630.

 

 Star Ledger Article

 

NJ Researchers Push for $1 Billion Bond Issue

New Jersey Right to Life
113 North Avenue West
Cranford, NJ  07016

Contact: Marie Tasy (732) 846-2000
Public & Legislative Affairs Director

$1 BILLION STEM ‘SELL’ PUSH SELF-SERVING AND MISLEADING
November 10, 2004—

In an obvious attempt to solicit additional funds for the NJ Stem Cell Institute to compete with California’s Proposition 71, the two researchers who have been appointed to head the NJ Stem Cell Institute, Ira Black, a neuroscientist at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ and Wise Young, a spinal cord researcher at Rutgers University held a press conference Tuesday in Trenton.  During the Press Conference, they called for a $1 billion bonding scheme to compete with California’s recently passed ballot initiative to provide $3 billion for human embryonic stem cell research.   Black and Young had already convinced McGreevey to increase the $6.5 million in the budget for the NJ Stem Cell Institute to $11.5 million on the day before the budget vote last June.   According to press accounts, Black and Young brought slides of naked babies with genetic disorders to the Statehouse to plead their case.

“This is nothing more than a misleading campaign to manipulate emotions to pour more taxpayer money into these researchers’ coffers,” said Marie Tasy, Public & Legislative Affairs Director. “These two men have a long history of dictating public policy and the use of our tax dollars when it comes to furthering their own agenda.”   Ira Black wrote the first proposal for the Stem Cell Center for Rutgers and UMDNJ in 2002, which he gave to McGreevey. (Star Ledger, 10/10/04), Jersey Aims to Cut Off A Stem Cell Gold Rush.)  Wise Young admitted writing the flawed legislation which the Stem Cell Institute is authorized to perform. “There is something terribly wrong with the way Trenton does business when researchers are permitted to craft legislation that they will personally benefit from,” noted Tasy.

The research to be performed by this Institute is unproven and unethical because it authorizes a cloning process, which creates a human embryo that is killed in order to harvest its stem cells.  Under the law, the research is not limited to the "embryonic" state, but authorized “through the embryo, fetal and newborn stages.”

The only research that is showing any promise comes from adult stem cells, which can be found in umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, placenta, skin, brains, spinal cords, dental pulp, olfactory, muscles, blood vessels, corneas, retinas, livers, pancreases, fat, hair follicles, placentas, umbilical cords and amniotic fluid.   There have been no human trials – involving human embryonic stem cells.   As stated by the NY Times in a recent article, “So far, there has not even been successful treatment in mice, and no specific help for humans is on the horizon.” (NY Times, October 28, 2004, "Fact Check: A Closer Look at the Stem Cell Debate" by David E. Rosenbaum.)

“The NJ Legislature is already facing a $4 billion shortfall next year and the state’s bond ratings have been lowered significantly because of excessive borrowing. We should not be fooled by the outrageous hype to persuade suffering people that funding human embryonic stem cell research and the cloning of humans will lead to a myriad of cures. The evidence proves otherwise,” said Tasy.

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Calling all pro-lifers! We must stop this madness!

[stopem]

You now whats frightening also?

This freezing procedure, what if someone gets the idea to donate those, not to mention what it says about the process, some are lost in the freezing process.

"METHOD OF EMBRYO FREEZING

When both animal and vegetable cells are simply frozen, their cell structure is destroyed by the formation of ice crystals. To freeze embryos (and sperm) we add a protective chemical know as a "cryoprotectant" to them which draws the water out of them so that ice crystals do not form in them when they are frozen. It is still not unusual for an embryo to lose one or more of its cells during the freeze/thaw process. This does not significantly reduce the potential of the embryo to produce a pregnancy unless more than half of its cells are lost. The loss of some cells also does not cause any increased risk of fetal abnormalities.

WHY ALL EXCESS EMBRYOS ARE NOT FROZEN

We have been freezing embryos for over fifteen years now, with steady improvement in the freezing techniques. One clear fact has emerged from this experience - poor quality embryos do not survive the freeze-thaw process. Embryos which have even sized cells within them and little fragmentation have a good chance of surviving being frozen. Embryos whose cells are uneven in size and which contain large numbers of fragments have a poor chance of surviving freezing."

This is all getting out of hand, stop messing with the UNBORN!!

[Coleus]

Thanks.

I'm listening to you now on the radio on 970DJ
http://kmclive.com/

and don't forget to mention the pro-life, anti-specter rally in NYC on Monday!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1277923/posts?page=6#6

[Coleus]

There is much more background information on this thread:

Renewed push for NJ Clone & Kill Bill, A2840/S1909. Immediate Action Needed!!!

[MHGinTN]

Advanced Cell Technologies, Woucester, MA is already involved heavily in conceiving human embryos for experimentation and stem cell extraction. Also, they have begun the cloning process and are working on a steady supply of ova from 'donating' females (paid for their ova, to be used in conceptions for experimental embryos). Massatwosh!ts is so liberal, they won't need to pass legislation to protect this cannibalism.

[MHGinTN]

Mel is already funding a 'stop Prop 71' effort. Mel is pro-life and very against taxpayer monies being used to fund the cannibalism on embryos.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

I'd love to see Gibson challenge Schwarzenegger in the next California election.

It seems the height of arrogance and stupidity that someone whose father was a Nazi would take the absurd move of approving government funding to slaughter an entire class of human beings. Totally bizarre. And macabre.

[MHGinTN]

Ahnold, in typical moderate/liberal style, doesn't believe the pre-born, in any age of their lifetimes, are human beings yet.

[Siobhan]

I'd love to see Gibson challenge Schwarzenegger in the next California election.

Ditto.

[milford421]

Exactly right....venture capitalists won't invest in it because it doesn't work.

Hence, the hysteria for government funding...whose pockets are being lined?