HR 552 - Right to Life Act
No, it hasn't been passed yet.
This is your weekly Right to Life Bill reminder.
Click here to read about House Bill HR 552, which was introduced in February by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif).
Then click here to get to your action page which provides you with things you could say to your representatives and where to go to say them.
Next, participate in the Monthly Call for life at MarchTogether.com. On Friday the 6th of January, call your representatives and urge them to pass H.R. Bill 552, the Right to Life act.
We email, call and/or march on local, state and federal facilities every first Friday of every month to let them know we want abortion to end.
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Umbilical Cord Blood Bill Signed by President Bush
President Bush signed the Umbilical Cord Blood Bill known as the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act which was written by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ).
ArticleUmbilical cords are a rich, non-controversial source of stem cells. Currently hospitals throw millions of them away each year because the infrastructure required to properly collect and store them is not available. When signed into law by President Bush, the bill will increase the number of cord blood units and cord blood stem cells available for treating patients and research will greatly increase.
Democrats have been standing in the way of Pro-Life efforts for a long time and finally we have made Pro-Life progress in a big way! They have been pushing for Embryonic (human) stem cell research government funding but President Bush has pledged to veto any HESR bill that comes in front of him.
"We will now be able to turn medical waste - umbilical cords and placentas - into medical miracles for huge numbers of very sick and terminally ill patients, who suffer from such maladies as leukemia and sickle cell anemia," said Smith.
HESR research has not cured a thing and billions of dollars have been thrown at it around the world. Cord blood and other adult stem cell research has helped many and continues to do so every day.
Thousands have been successfully treated with cord blood stem cells for more than 67 diseases including Leukemia and Sickle Cell Anemia. This was a great victory for the Pro-Life movement.
"It occurred to me," said Smith after the passage of the bill, "while driving to work this afternoon that it is especially fitting, that during these days of holiness and religious significance, that Congress sends to the President a bill designed to effectuate cures from some of the most devastating diseases and cancers on earth."
Smith added: "Not only has God in His infinite wisdom and goodness created the placenta and umbilical cord to nurture and protect the
precious life of an unborn child, but now we know that another gift awaits us immediately after birth, something very special is left behind - cord blood that is rich with stem cells.
"Indeed, one of the best kept secrets in America today is that umbilical cord blood stem cells and adult stem cells are curing people of a myriad of terrible conditions and diseases."
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Cord Blood Bill Passed by the Senate
The Culture of death almost won again. They tried to block
HR 2520, a bill that will provide blood for collection and storage of umbilical cord blood "because they favor an embryonic stem cell research proposal".
ArticleThe house overwhelmingly passed HR 2520 to save lives through cord blood research only to almost have it rejected by the culture-of-death Democrats in the Senate.
The problem is, we have culture-of-death Republicans in office too.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, who sponsored the cord blood measure in the Senate and supports the embryonic stem cell legislation, said, "I think we should take the majority leader's word that he'll bring [HR 810] up" next year, CQ Today reported.
No decent Republican should support any bill which gives our government permission to kill human beings for experimentation. Sen. Bill Frist should have demanded a vote on HR 2520 based on it's merits, not on a condition that HR 810 would be brought up.
We should not make deals with the devil.
Argue till you're blue in the face, embryonic stem cell research is wrong, as are fertility treatments. These so-called "extra" embryos would not be available if there were no fertility treatments.
Let's read part of HR 810:
SEC. 498D. HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH.
`(a) In General- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (including any regulation or guidance), the Secretary shall conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells in accordance with this section (regardless of the date on which the stem cells were derived from a human embryo) .
`(b) Ethical Requirements- Human embryonic stem cells shall be eligible for use in any research conducted or supported by the Secretary if the cells meet each of the following:
`(1) The stem cells were derived from human embryos that have
been donated from in vitro fertilization clinics, were created for the purposes of fertility treatment, and were in excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment.
`(2) Prior to the consideration of embryo donation and through consultation with the individuals seeking fertility treatment, it was determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded.
`(3) The individuals seeking fertility treatment donated the embryos with written informed consent and without receiving any financial or other inducements to make the donation.
They have the gall to say "Ethical Requirements".
"would otherwise be discarded"?
Why would a human being be discarded?
We must accept the fact that life begins at conception, not when a baby exits the womb of the mother. We must speak out against this kind of research!
Please don't think your responsibility ends when you push the button on the voting machine. Get involved and help us end abortion in this country. Help us defend the defenseless and help the helpless. Join us in the Monthly March for Life at
MarchTogether.com. We unite every month on the first Friday in a Call for Life where we email, call and/or march to let our representatives know we want abortion to end.
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Major Breakthrough for Adult Stem Cell Research!
Finally a breakthrough that could sink the Embryonic (human) Stem Cell Research for good.
At the University of Illinois, researches have managed to get stem cells from adult mice to change into brain, nerve, heart muscle and pancreatic cells.
ArticleThose researching Embryonic (human) Stem Cells have been holding up the healing possibilities of their research, but have not yielded one single "healing" yet.
“We have found a counterpart for embryonic stem cells in adult bone marrow. This could negate the ethical concerns,” said Mariusz Ratajczak, leader of the research team and director of the stem cell biology program at Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center.
The next step is to replicate the experiment with similar cells identified in adult humans.
“It’s huge. It’s an amazing discovery,” said Ryan Reca, one of the researchers.
I have always held to the main point, which is that human beings should not be used for experiments. It doesn't matter if you come up with some miracle cure using Embryonic Stem Cells. If you have to kill human beings for your experiments, you're no better than Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Germans.
“Specifically, embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized in vitro - in an in vitro fertilization clinic - and then donated for research purposes with the informed consent of the donors,” according to a stem cell primer from the National Institutes of Health.
How you can donate another person to be killed for experimentation is beyond me. This is pure evil and our country is silent as Joseph Mengele wanna-bes experiment with living human beings, even supported by state funds in some states like California.
But many researchers and liberal religious groups have persisted in urging such funding, saying embryonic stem cells hold the best potential for medical research. They also say some of the older stem cell lines funded under Bush’s policy have been contaminated and are not as useful as producing new ones would be.
It's no surprise the culture of death is interested in killing living human beings for their research. President Bush should never have given in to them in the first place!
The research announced Monday appears to show that VSELs can be grown in the laboratory, multiply into clusters of cells and then be caused to change into other types of cells such as brain or cardiac muscle cells.
“We’ve established how to isolate and how to unleash the power of this cell,” Ratajczak said.
Will this shut up the pro-abortion / pro-embryonic (human) research crowd? Not on your life...literally if you are an unborn embryo in their hands.
For those of you who are ready to stand up to the pro-abortion crowd, join us for the next Monthly Call for Life at
MarchTogether.com. We unite once a month on the first Friday to email, call and/or march to let our representatives know we want them to end abortion and end the baby-killing research.
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Columbia Remains Abortion Free
As Tim from
ProLifeBlogs.com pointed out, Columbia is a country which recently dodged the abortion bullet.
Article of an
American Life League Press Release
Washington, D.C. — American Life League, the nation's largest pro-life educational organization, played a key role in a recent ruling thatwill protect the lives of countless preborn children in Colombia. "It is fair to say that ALL and other international pro-life organizations successfully prevented the 'Roe v. Wade' of Colombia from taking effect," said Gualberto Garcia-Jones, director of legislative affairs for American Life League. "Despite the best efforts of numerous American pro-abortion groups, the killing of children through abortion is illegal in Colombia."
American Life League and Human Life International took on this fight when it was discovered that many pro-abortion organizations were aiming to overturn the current Colombian law, which protects preborn babies in the womb. The Center for Reproductive Rights, International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Allan Guttmacher Institute, Human Rights Watch, and "Catholics" for a Free Choice are just a few of the American groups that were working to overturn the law and decriminalize abortion in Colombia.Can you imagine the millions that were spent by those pro-abortion organizations who tried to bring abortion to Columbia? I'm glad some of their money went out into the world without them benefiting from it.
Congratulations Columbia!
Thank you
Thanks to all of you who helped with the Monthly Call for Life at MarchTogether.com on Friday, December 2nd. So many of you help in different ways to help the unborn, not just through the MarchTogether.com project, but also in your own ways.
Start preparing for next month. The next Call for Life day is January the 6th. Do everything you can to get the word out to everyone you know.
This will be the last Call for Life in 2005 and will be followed by the annual March for Life on the 23rd. Stay tuned for more information on that and also for the first ever Pro-Life Bloggers Conference, which will be held in Washington DC on that day, before the march. Charmaine Yoest from REASONED audacity, Tim Ruchti from ProLifeBlogs.com and I are putting this together with help from the Family Research Council.
Again, thank you all for participating in the Monthly Call for Life at MarchTogether.com and for everything else you do to help end abortion.
Peter
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Call for Life Today!
Tell everyone you know that today is the day of the Monthly Call for Life. Please help the unborn by calling and/or emailing your representatives. We will also be at the Supreme Court in Washington DC from noon till 2:00. We will have signs or you can bring your own.
Go to
MarchTogether.com for everything you need in order to Call for Life. We help you with phone numbers, email addresses and even what you might want to say. If you want to print out your own signs or Life Cards they are there for you to download for free.
March on your local government building if you can, even if it's just for an hour. Use your own signs if you want. If you are from Defend Life, the American Life League or any other Pro-Life organization, use the signs you have.
Another 4,000 human beings will be killed by a "doctor" today. The unborn need us to do everything we can.
Since the last Call for Life on November 4th, an additional 10 organizations / Pro-Life bloggers have cross-linked to
MarchTogether.com. Thousands of people are coming to the site every month and many of you are participating in different ways to help the project grow. If you would like to cross-link with us, send an email to
linkexchange@marchtogether.com.
Email and call everyone you know who might take part in this important mission. Encourage others to speak out to help stop the state sanctioned killing of human beings in the womb.
The power of God is working through all of us in our cause to save His children / our children. I know that legally ending abortion alone is not the final answer, and I know there are many other pieces to the Pro-Life puzzle. Fortunately we are diverse in our efforts and through our different missions we help put together the puzzle one piece at a time.
We the people of this great country need to speak up for the first right which is declared in the Declaration of Independence, namely the "Right to Life"!
If you can help out in any way, like graphics or web development, email us at
volunteer@marchtogether.com.
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