Another Win for HUMAN LIFE

We applaud our friends on the Hill for catching and turning back a deceptive bill by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo). Wednesday night DeGette attempted to sneak a bill through the process which she promoted as a human cloning ban. She put the bill into the legislative schedule at a time when no amendments (and relatively no debate) could be offered. Then, she and other liberals lobbied their colleagues by claiming that the bill would outlaw human cloning, when in fact, it would have given scientists carte blanch to clone embryos as long as the clones were destroyed. In other words, the legislation would have not only allowed cloning but required killing. The bill was so unpopular that Democrats couldn't even convince a majority to vote for their measure, let alone find the two-thirds votes necessary to move the bill forward. And it is no wonder, since 86% of the American people oppose the very cloning this bill pushed. Today, the House is poised to vote on S. 5, another bill that would require the destruction of human embryos for research. Considering yesterday's announcement that scientists had successfully transformed skin cells into stem cells that could eventually treat disease, expanding funds for unethical research seems seriously misguided. Money should be directed to pro-life alternatives that are treating people now. Rather than siphon money away from adult stem cell treatments which are actually benefiting patients, we should focus our resources on results.