SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
October 11, 2009 -- For Immediate Release
Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Indoctrinating Students to Support Dangerous, Ineffective, Unethical Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Sacramento – SaveCalifornia.com, a West Coast pro-family, pro-child organization, is appalled that Governor Schwarzenegger has signed a bill authorizing new curriculum to teach schoolchildren the lie that embryonic stem cell research heals people (it doesn't), that it doesn’t harm people (it has caused tumors and cancer in patients), and doesn't kill human beings (it does, by destroying human embryos).
“By signing SB 471, curriculum will be created to teach children that embryonic stem cell research is good, helpful, harmless and ethical, when just the opposite is true,” said SaveCalifornia.com President Randy Thomasson. “It’s absurd for the Legislature and the Governor to continue putting money the state doesn’t have, plus valuable classroom time, into California’s $3 billion failed experiment on embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cell research hasn’t produced a single effective treatment, but instead has caused tumors and tissue rejection. It’s wrong to lie to children about this.”
“The State of California should instead support research in adult stem cells and cord blood stem cells, which are successfully treating more than 70 conditions, ranging from Parkinson’s disease to spinal cord injuries to blindness,” continued Thomasson. “Dr. Oz says the stem cell debate is over because induced pluripotent stem cells are healing diseases without harming anyone, while embryonic stem cell treatment hasn’t healed anyone but has caused cancer and tissue rejection. Morally-acceptable induced pluripotent stem cells, manipulated to behave like embryonic stem cells, have solved the rejection problem because these stem cells are taken from a patient's own body.”
Research at UCLA using adult stem cells has produced rehabilitative cells without the destruction of human beings. This is worth celebrating, not ignoring.
Earlier this year, it was announced that British and Canadian scientists have discovered a way to produce an almost endless supply of stem cells that could safely be used in patients and research, without any need to destroy human embryos. The cells are made from a person's own skin, carrying the person's own DNA, thus preventing future rejection by the immune system. This is much better than unhelpful and hugely expensive embryonic research.
See adult and cord blood success stories: http://www.stemcellresearch.org/
Watch Dr. Mehmet Oz explain to Oprah Winfrey and Michael J. Fox that “the stem cell debate is dead.” Dr. Oz says using embryonic stem cells is dangerous and without success, unlike adult and cord blood stem cells.
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