Fw: Thank Your Representative for Supporting an Expansion of the Current Stem Cell Policy

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Thought you all would like to read this and see if the ones you wrote to

supports the Embryonic stem cell research.

Jane Anne King

Thank Your Representative for Supporting an Expansion of the Current

Stem Cell Policy

Action Alert!

Last Friday, thanks to your help, a letter signed by 206 members of the House of

Representatives was sent to President Bush urging him to expand his current stem

cell policy.

WRITE/CALL/FAX/EMAIL YOUR CONGRESSPERSON

Thank Them for Signing onto the Bi-Partisan Letter

And for Supporting Medical Research

View the List of Representatives Who Signed at the Bottom of This Email: If Your

Representative Is On the List Please Thank Them!

Please Take a Few Minutes to Visit the

Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research Website

http://www.camradvocacy.org/fastaction/takeaction.asp

And Take Action In Support of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

You May Modify the Current Letter on the CAMR Website

In Order to Thank Your Representative

Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to treat and better understand the

deadly and disabling diseases that affect more than 100 million Americans, such

as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, multiple

sclerosis, spinal cord injury and many others.

When President Bush announced his stem cell policy in August 2001, we did not

foresee that the 78 lines available for research at that time would not be

sufficient. Tell your Members of Congress the challenges with the current policy

are the following:

a.. While it originally appeared that 78 embryonic stem cell lines would be

available for research under the federal policy, now, more than two years after

August 9, 2001, only 15 are available to researchers.

b.. All of those 15 lines are contaminated with mouse feeder cells, making

their therapeutic use for humans uncertain.

c.. Scientists are reporting that it is increasingly difficult to attract new

scientists to this area of research because of concerns that funding

restrictions will keep this research from being successful.

d.. This promising field of research is moving overseas. We have already seen

researchers move to countries such as the United Kingdom, Singapore, Israel,

Sweden, and Australia, which have more supportive policies.

Embryonic stem cell research is about saving and improving lives. Go to

www.camradvocacy.org, and follow the steps to Contact Congress.

Thank you for supporingt Embryonic Stem Cell Research!!!!!

REPRESENTATIVE SIGNATURE LIST

Young, Don

AK

, Artur

AL

Ross, Mike

AR

Snyder, Vic

AR

Grijalva,

AZ

Kolbe, Jim

AZ

Pastor, Ed

AZ

Baca, Joe

CA

Becerra, Xavier

CA

Berman, L

CA

Bono,

CA

Capps, Lois

CA

Cunningham, Randy " Duke "

CA

, A

CA

Dooley, Calvin M

CA

Eshoo, G

CA

Farr, Sam

CA

Filner, Bob

CA

Honda, M

CA

Lantos, Tom

CA

Lee, Barbara

CA

, Jerry

CA

Matsui, T

CA

,

CA

Napolitano, Grace F

CA

Ose, Doug

CA

Pelosi,

CA

Rohrabacher, Dana

CA

Roybal-Allard, Lucille

CA

,

CA

, Loretta

CA

Schiff, Adam B

CA

Sherman, Brad

CA

Solis, Hilda L

CA

Stark, Fortney Pete

CA

Tauscher, Ellen O

CA

, M.

CA

, Mike

CA

, Diane E.

CA

Waxman, Henry A

CA

Woolsey, Lynn C

CA

DeGette,

CO

Udall, Mark

CO

DeLauro, L

CT

, L.

CT

Larson, B

CT

Shays,

CT

, Rob

CT

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

DC

Castle, N.

DE

Brown, Corrine

FL

, Jim

FL

Deutsch,

FL

Foley, Mark

FL

Wexler,

FL

Bishop, Sanford D., Jr.

GA

,

GA

Majette, L.

GA

Abercrombie, Neil

HI

Case, Ed

HI

Boswell, Leonard L

IA

Leach, A.

IA

Biggert, Judy

IL

, Danny K

IL

Emanuel, Rahm

IL

, Lane

IL

, L., Jr

IL

Kirk, Mark

IL

Lipinski, O

IL

Schakowsky, Janice D

IL

, Denni

KS

Jefferson, J

LA

Capuano, E

MA

Delahunt, D

MA

, Barney

MA

Markey, J

MA

McGovern, P

MA

Meehan, T

MA

Neal, E

MA

Olver, W

MA

Tierney, F

MA

Cardin, L

MD

Cummings, Elijah E

MD

Gilchrest, Wayne T.

MD

Hoyer, Steny H.

MD

Ruppersberger, C.A. " Dutch "

MD

Van Hollen, Jr.

MD

Wynn, Albert

MD

, H.

ME

Dingell, D.

MI

Levin, Sander M.

MI

McCollum, Betty

MN

Ramstad, Jim

MN

Sabo, Olav

MN

Clay, Wm. Lacy

MO

Gephardt, A.

MO

, Bennie G

MS

, Brad

NC

Price, E

NC

Watt, Melvin L

NC

Bass, F.

NH

Bradley, Jeb

NH

s, E.

NJ

Holt, Rush D.

NJ

Menendez,

NJ

Pallone, , Jr.

NJ

Pascrell, Bill, Jr.

NJ

Payne, M.

NJ

Rothman, R.

NJ

Udall, Tom

NM

Berkley,

NV

Gibbons, Jim

NV

Ackerman, L

NY

Bishop, Tim

NY

Boehlert, Sherwood L.

NY

Crowley, ph

NY

Engel, Eliot L

NY

Hinchey, Maurice D

NY

Houghton, Amo

NY

Israel, Steve

NY

, Sue W.

NY

Lowey, Nita M

NY

Maloney, Carolyn B.

NY

McCarthy, Carolyn

NY

Meeks, W

NY

Nadler, Jerrold

NY

Owens, Major R

NY

Rangel, B

NY

Serrano, Jos E.

NY

Slaughter, Louise McIntosh

NY

Towns, Edolphus

NY

Velzquez, Nydia M.

NY

Weiner, D

NY

Brown, Sherrod

OH

, Tubbs

OH

Pryce, Deborah

OH

Strickland, Ted

OH

Carson, Brad

OK

Blumenauer, Earl

OR

DeFazio, A.

OR

Hooley, Darlene

OR

Wu,

OR

Brady, A.

PA

Doyle, F

PA

Greenwood, C.

PA

Hoeffel, ph M

PA

Kennedy, J.

RI

Langevin, R.

RI

Spratt, M., Jr.

SC

Ford, Harold E., Jr

TN

Gordon, Bart

TN

Bell, Chris

TX

Doggett, Lloyd

TX

Frost,

TX

, A

TX

Green, Gene

TX

-Lee, Sheila

TX

Lampson, Nick

TX

Reyes, Silvestre

TX

, Ciro D.

TX

Sandlin, Ma

TX

Boucher, Rick

VA

, Tom

VA

Moran, P.

VA

, C

VA

Baird,

WA

Dicks, Norman D

WA

Dunn,

WA

Inslee, Jay

WA

Larsen, Rick

WA

McDermott, Jim

WA

, Adam

WA

Baldwin, Tammy

WI

Kind, Ron

WI

Kleczka, Gerald D

WI