Fw: Senate Expansion Letter Extension - Help Us Get 60 Signatures!

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I hope you all can get this. We only need four more senators to sign for

the policy on Embryonic Stem Cell Research.

So please find you senators on the list and see if they did sign for it and if

they did not send them a letter or fax. I did for the ones in Ga.

Jane Anne King

Senate Expansion Letter Extension - Help Us Get 60 Signatures!

Extremely Urgent Action Alert

Senate Letter Extension

We Need 4 More Senators to Sign the Bi-partisan Letter to President Bush Urging

Him to Expand the Current Federal Policy on Embryonic Stem Cell Research. We

Cannot Do This Without Your Help!

CALL/FAX YOUR SENATORS TODAY!

Urge them to Sign onto the Bi-Partisan Letter And Support Research

At the end of this message, view a list of Senators who have signed the letter.

If your Senators have already signed, Thank Them! Additionally, the 206 Members

of the House of Representatives who signed a similar letter a few weeks ago

would appreciate your support for their decision to sign. Visit:

http://www.camradvocacy.org/fastaction/housepres4-28.pdf to view the

Representatives who signed and Thank Them.

Please Take a Few Minutes to Visit the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical

Research Website www.camradvocacy.org and Take Action In Support of Embryonic

Stem Cell Research http://www.camradvocacy.org/fastaction/takeaction.asp

To Find Your Senators Phone #'s Visit:

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

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 Senators 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 19 are available to researchers.

b.. All of those 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.

Make your support of Embryonic Stem Cell Research known!!!!!

Senators Signed on the Specter/Harkin Stem Cell Letter as of June 2, 2004

s, Ted

AK

Lincoln, Blanche L.

AR

McCain,

AZ

Boxer, Barbara

CA

Feinstein, Dianne

CA

Dodd,

CT

Lieberman, ph I.

CT

Carper, R.

DE

Graham, Bob

FL

, Bill

FL

Akaka, K.

HI

Inouye, K.

HI

Harkin, Tom

IA

Durbin, J.

IL

Bayh, Evan

IN

Landrieu,

LA

Kennedy, M

MA

Kerry, F.

MA

Mikulski, Barbara A.

MD

Sarbanes, S.

MD

, M.

ME

Snowe, Olympia J.

ME

Levin, Carl

MI

Stabenow, Debbie A.

MI

Dayton, Mark

MN

Cochran, Thad

MS

Lott, Trent

MS

Baucus, Max

MT

, R.

NC

Dorgan, Byron L.

ND

Corzine, Jon

NJ

Lautenberg, R.

NJ

Bingaman, Jeff

NM

Reid, Harry

NV

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

NY

Schumer, E.

NY

, Gordan

OR

Wyden, Ron

OR

Specter, Arlen

PA

Chafee, Lincoln D.

RI

, Jack

RI

Hollings, Ernest F.

SC

Daschle, A.

SD

, Tim

SD

, Lamar

TN

Hutchison, Kay

TX

Hatch, Orrin G.

UT

Warner, W.

VA

Jeffords, M.

VT

Leahy, J.

VT

Cantwell,

WA

Murray, Patty

WA

Feingold, Russ

WI

Kohl, Herbert H.

WI

Byrd, C.

WV

Rockefeller, D. IV

WV