ANOTHER CALL CALL CALL CALL - See note below. Too late for e-mails. If you are local please try to come to the Legislature on Jones street for a few hours.. Go up the red carpeted staircase to the gallery. Warm bodies are even more impressive than phone calls. Right to LIfe and LifeTree will be there but our numbers are few. The House Convenes at 12:30 and the Senate at 9 am today. The Advance Directive bills will also be voted on. PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL AND OR CALL YOUR FRIENDS.
The Embryonic Stem Cell Bill has reared it's "ugly head" again. Please use this Family Policy Council alert AND TAKE A FEW MINUTES to call the legislators below. Embryonic Stem Cell Research is legal in North Carolina. This bill would eventually enable your public tax payer dollars to be used.
Subject: EMERGENCY ALERT! Calls Needed on Embryonic Stem Cell Bill!
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By a vote of 57 to 51, the North Carolina House gave tentative approval Friday to a bill that would authorize state funding of embryonic stem cell research. The bill, HB 1837-Stem Cell Research Health & Wellness Act, is scheduled to come back before the House for a final vote on Saturday afternoon.
Please call the following House members Saturday before NOON and ask them to switch their vote from YES to NO! If only four members switch their votes, we can defeat this bill that will result in the destruction of human embryos--human life at its earliest and most vulnerable stage.
Rep. Cary Allred (Alamance) 919-733-5905
Rep. William Brisson (Bladen, Cumberland) 919-733-5772
Rep. Walter Church (Burke) 919-733-5805
Rep. Nelson Cole (Rockingham) 919-733-5779
Rep. Mary McAllister (Cumberland) 919-733-5959
Rep. Marian McLawhorn (Pitt) 919-733-5757
Rep. Cullie Tarleton (Ashe, Watauga) 919-733-7727
Rep. Ray Warren (Alexander, Catawba) 919-715-8361
Rep. Michael Wray (Northampton, Vance, Warren) 919-733-5662
TALKING POINTS:
- Embryonic stem cell research is unethical because it requires the destruction of human embryos to harvest stem cells. These embryos are human beings at their earliest and most vulnerable stage.
- Research on non-controversial sources of stem cells (including adult tissue cells, umbilical cord blood, placenta, and amniotic fluid) has resulted in treatments and cures for over 70 diseases and ailments in human beings, while research on human embryonic stem cells has resulted in NONE!
- State taxpayer dollars should be used only to support and fund research that has proven results. Embryonic stem cell research has shown no proven results and is plagued with problems, such as the development of tumors when introduced into the subject needing treatment.
For more information about the benefits of adult stem cell research and the risks of embryonic stem cell research, see the March/April 2007 Issue of Family North Carolina Magazine.
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Dear Representative X,
As one of your constituents, I recently discovered that the State House
is considering the "Stem Cell Research Health and Wellness Act," HB 1837,
which has been recently sent to the Appropriations Committee on which you
serve. I would like to point out two areas in particular for your
consideration as your committee considers this bill: the failure of this
bill to adequately address ethical concerns about embryonic stem cell
research, and the lack of support for other kinds of stem cell research
which avoid the insurmountable ethical problems with embryonic research.
The bill as currently written would make it state policy that embryonic
stem cell research could be conducted only on cells derived from "excess"
embryos donated after in vitro fertilization treatment. On its surface, this
appears to be an admirable solution. However, it does not address the
primary ethical concern that many of your constituents have with such
research: that it destroys a human embryo. Whether created for the purpose
of stem cell research or for in vitro fertilization does not change the
basic fact that embryos are destroyed to produced embryonic stem cells. If
you consider an embryo to be a human life, this can never be condoned, even
if miraculous treatments be generated as a result.
Our legislature could, however, endorse and fund research designed to
circumvent this problem. Researchers at Wake Forest University School of
Medicine, for example, have derived cells with many of the properties of
embryonic stem cells from amniotic fluid. With the support of our state,
these scientists and many others like them may generate ways to produce
cells with many, if not all, of the benefits of embryonic stem cells without
destroying embryos in the process. In addition, adult-derived stem cell
research shows great promise in medical therapeutics. By focusing on areas
of research that do not contain ethical pitfalls, we would set an example
for the rest of the country to follow.
I acknowledge that my requests may sound like pleas to limit the
creativity of scientists. But, as a molecular biologist by training, I have
come to understand that what we can pursue must be tempered by what we ought
to pursue. Embryonic stem cell research may be a panacea for all I know, but
to save lives at the expense of countless others is a cure that we cannot
risk. This policy debate turns on whether a human embryo is a human life.
That is something that science cannot answer, so we should err on the side
of caution.
QUESTION-where are the so called, vaunted and feared "religious right"????
CONSTITUTION PARTY OF NC OPPOSES EMBRYONIC STEM CELL
RESEARCH BILL
It was with great sadness that North Carolina
legislators were considering such a horrendous bill.
There has been no substantial proof offered that stem
cell research would heal diseases or further life and
health, yet state and national legislatures across the
country make an assumption that it will and fund it.
The Constitution Party of NC opposes this bill on the
grounds that :
1. It is not constitutionally permissible. I can find
no provision in the NC Constitution allowing the state
to take the hard earned wages of its citizens and their
taxes to fund medical research, scientific research,
etc.
2.We reject the statements often made that “the
leftover embryos will be thrown out anyway”. What is
never challenged is why they are thrown out. What is
never asked is who authorized these human beings to be
thrown out like trash. Why do we do it? Why is this an
automatic conclusion?
These questions are never asked. It is akin to saying
“Chris Campbell will die eventually, so why bother
providing him medical care, food, police protection,
etc”.
This Naziesque mentality allowed a defenseless Terri
Schiavo to be starved and dehydrated to death, in broad
day light and with the enforcement of state and federal
authorities. This mentality led GW Bush in his first
term to fund and authorize 78 embryos to be
experimented on like animals, with little value.
Need I remind the honorable men and women of the NC
Legislature, this mentality was rampant in NC and the
nation from the 1920’s to the early 1970’s in regards
to forcibly sterilizing women. NC helped to enact,
enforce and fund the eugenics on the poor, the mentally
ill, blacks and others that could not protect
themselves. The same was practiced, for shorter
periods, in Hitler’s Germany and the Soviet Union.
This shameful practice was reported on about a year ago
in the Raleigh News and Observer. I would refer your
honors to the Supreme Court case Buck vs Bell (274 U.S.
200,207 1927). This poor, mentally challenged women had
the courage and intelligence to fight the states
forcible sterilization all the way to the Supreme
Court. With a chill, we recall the anti-Christian
message of Oliver Wendell Holmes:
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
This mentality led much of the nation to regard black
men and women as little more then cattle, for
accounting and voting purposes, 4/5ths of a white
person. Blacks were denied their God given, human
rights and freedoms.
We now stand at the precipice of yet another outrage,
another attack on life. With righteous anger we loudly
proclaimed “no” to the Nazis at Nuremburg. We refused
to use their research on human beings-both inside and
outside the womb. Though much medical knowledge could
be gained, we decided, rightly, that the ends do not
justify the means. There is a higher moral law, above
our own interests and whims. I ask that all in the
legislature to act in the interest of all North
Carolinians by opposing this terrible, murderous bill.
Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s and other terrible diseases
have touched my family and many of yours, yet it is
always wrong to take one innocent life for that of
another. The ONLY stem cells that have proven value in
treating disease have been derived from adults or come
from sources that do not diminish the value of human
life.
We must reject the Rep. Jim Gulley’s humanistic and
hypocritical statements, some thing abortion supporters
would similarly make:
“The bill comes down to what to do with the stem cells
that are left over from in-vitro fertilization - do you
flush them or do you use them for medical research?"
"The use of stem cells for research is totally separate
from the abortion issue,"(1)
The Platform of the Constitution Party reads:
The pre-born child, whose life begins at fertilization,
is a human being created in God's image. The first duty
of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent
blood. It is, therefore, the duty of all civil
governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the
pre-born.
To that end, the Constitution of the United States was
ordained and established for "ourselves and our
posterity." Under no circumstances may the federal
government fund or otherwise support any state or local
government or any organization or entity, foreign or
domestic, which advocates, encourages or participates
in the practice of abortion. We also oppose the
distribution and use of all abortifacients.
We affirm the God-given legal personhood of all unborn
human beings, without exception. As to matters of rape
and incest, it is unconscionable to take the life of an
innocent child for the crimes of his father.
No government may legalize the taking of the
unalienable right to life without justification,
including the life of the pre-born; abortion may not be
declared lawful by any institution of state or local
government - legislative, judicial, or executive. The
right to life should not be made dependent upon a vote
of a majority of any legislative body.
In addition, Article IV of the Constitution guarantees
to each state a republican form of government.
Therefore, although a Supreme Court opinion is binding
on the parties to the controversy as to the particulars
of the case, it is not a political rule for the nation.
Roe v. Wade is an illegitimate usurpation of authority,
contrary to the law of the nation's Charter and
Constitution. It must be resisted by all civil
government officials, federal, state, and local, and by
all branches of the government - legislative,
executive, and judicial.
We affirm both the authority and duty of Congress to
limit the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
in all cases of abortion in accordance with the U.S.
Constitution, Article III, Section 2.
In office, we shall only appoint to the federal
judiciary, and to other positions of federal authority,
qualified individuals who publicly acknowledge and
commit themselves to the legal personhood of the
pre-born child. In addition, we will do all that is
within our power to encourage federal, state, and local
government officials to protect the sanctity of the
life of the pre-born through legislation, executive
action, and judicial enforcement of the law of the land.
Further, we condemn the misuse of federal laws against
pro-life demonstrators, and strongly urge the repeal of
the FACE Acts as an unconstitutional expansion of
federal power into areas reserved to the states or
people by the Tenth Amendment.
In addition, we oppose the funding and legalization of
bio-research involving human embryonic or pre-embryonic
cells.
Finally, we also oppose all government "legalization"
of euthanasia, infanticide and suicide.
Please ladies and gentleman, pray for Jim Gulley and
his family through this terrible illness. Reject his
call to kill these unborn children to further his own
agenda.
Truly,
Chris Campbell
Chairman, Constitution Party of NC
1. Margeret Lillard, AP 6/20/07
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