hESCR — (human Embryonic Stem Cell Research)

MOMENT OF TRUTH in our fight for the CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS…!

Life Legal’s fight against unjust judgments designed to crush the Center for Medical Progress has reached a moment of truth…. Oral arguments in our appeal of these revenge judgments delivered in favor of abortion mega-corporation Planned Parenthood commence on Thursday, April 21st! You remember the pro-life victories scored by the Center for Medical Progress. The …

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Life Legal STILL FIGHTING unjust judgments against Center for Medical Progress…!

Life Legal attorneys filed our reply brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week, asking the court to reverse a $2.4 million judgment against the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and other pro-life defendants.   Planned Parenthood sued CMP and its Board of Directors, as well as David Daleiden, Sandra Merritt, and other investigative journalists, …

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Prop 14 Baby Experimentation Scam: VOTE NO!

Proponents of embryonic stem cell experimentation are attempting to resurrect the failed California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), originally launched in 2004 under Proposition 71. The new bond measure, Prop 14, and will cost taxpayers nearly $8 billion. The Prop 71 campaign was riddled with misrepresentations, deception, and outright fraud. So what has changed since …

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Fool me twice: California’s stem cell fiasco

They’re BAAAACK….for more of your money Proponents of embryonic stem cell experimentation are attempting to resurrect the failed California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), originally launched in 2004 under Proposition 71. A new bond measure, which will appear on the November ballot as Proposition 14, will cost taxpayers nearly $8 billion, including interest. The Prop …

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California Bill Allows Payment for Harvesting Women’s Eggs for Research

On July 1, 2013, the California legislature passed AB 926, a bill that would reverse the state’s current ban on paying women who donate their eggs for research purposes. The bill is now awaiting signature from Governor Jerry Brown. The bill requires a human subject research panel to determine how much a woman should be …

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The Arrival of Human Cloning: It’s here. Don’t get used to it.

Wesley J. Smith Human cloning is finally here, and it is going to spark a political conflagration. First, some background. The cloning era began when Dolly the sheep was manufactured in 1996. Dolly was cloned via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). This is accomplished by removing the nucleus from a skin or other cell (in …

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Exploitation in the Making?

California Considers Bill that Would Allow Researchers to Pay Women for Harvesting Their Eggs Assemblywoman Susan Bonilla (D-Concord) has introduced a bill, AB 926, that would remove the prohibition on paying women to donate their eggs for research purposes. Certain types of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research require large numbers of oocytes  which are used …

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Stem Cell Research Update

The only company conducting FDA-approved clinical trials using human embryonic stem cells (hESC) is now calling a halt to the trials. Not only have the trials stopped, but the company, Geron, which has been considered a leader in the field, indicated that it will be turning its resources to projects other than stem cell research. …

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CIRM Education Curriculum Perpetuates Dangerous Mindset about hESC

San Francisco, Calif.: “This is definitely not a fetus yet.” That is what the suggested “script” instructs presenters of an introductory stem cell power point presentation to tell students as they look at a five-day-old human blastocyst, the group of cells comprising the human embryo. The presentation is just one of several educational tools within …

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Proposition 71 a Failure

Investor’s Business Daily editorializes about the failure of Prop 71. Wesley Smith comments. From its editorial: California Proposition 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not— either because of federal policy or funding restraints on biomedical research centered …

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