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The National Stem Cell Bank Will Be Located In Wisconsin

Wisconsin will gain a more prominent role in stem cell research thanks to the arrival of the nation's first and only federally funded stem cell bank, Gov. Jim Doyle announced. While the federal government also sponsors stem cell research labs in Georgia and California, the new bank will be the first in the nation to consolidate embryonic stem cell lines from around the world, according to a WiCell Research Institute press release, which is in charge of establishing the stem cell bank.
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"Countless millions of real human persons will lose their lives as a direct consequence of President Bush's decision to authorize federal funding for stem cell research," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. August 11, 2001

Flashback to August 9, 2001

Bush Allows Stem Cell Funding
By Scott Lindlaw / The Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas –– President Bush announced approval Thursday night for federal funding for limited medical research on stem cells extracted from human embryos. In the first prime-time speech of his presidency, Bush said the issue was "one of the most profound of our time," adding he had come down in favor of funding because of the potential for new cures for chronic diseases. Bush said it was "important that we pay attention to the moral concerns of the new frontier." The decision was sure to fuel an emotional debate, and exposed Bush to sharp criticism from conservatives unalterably opposed to any type of embryonic stem cell research.

Reversing A Campaign Pledge Bush OKs Stem Cell Studies
UPI
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President George W. Bush on Thursday said he would allow federal funding for limited research involving cells from human embryos, reversing a campaign pledge after months of mulling the controversial issue. "We must proceed with great care," Bush said in announcing his decision at his ranch in central Texas.

Bush Supports Funding Of Limited Stem Cell Research
Reuters
CRAWFORD, Texas -- President George W. Bush said on Thursday he supported limiting federal funding of research on stem cells taken from human embryos only to an estimated 60 existing lines of stem cells. ``I have concluded federal funds should be used for these existing stem cell lines where the life and death decision has already been made,'' Bush said in a national television speech from his Texas ranch. ``I have made this decision with great care, and I pray it's the right one.''

Flashback to August 10, 2001

Stem Cell Decision Likely Headed For Courts, Hill
By Joseph Curl / The Washington Times
President Bush's decision on embryonic stem cells has created a deep rift in the Republican Party and pushed the contentious issue to the courts, where opponents of federal funding for such research vow to force the federal government to halt all funding. While top administration officials sought to portray the president's decision to allow research on 60 existing stem cell lines as keeping with his campaign pledge to oppose "experimentation on embryonic stem cells that require live human embryos to be discarded or destroyed," conservative Christian groups argue it does not. "To grant federal funds for research even for those 60 stem lines already harvested violates federal law," said Samuel B. Casey, senior staff counsel for Human Life Advocates, a nonprofit group that has sued the federal government to stop embryonic stem-cell research. "We will press litigation starting tomorrow. We are going to argue that those 60 stem cell lines require the destruction of embryos, which is a violation of the law," Mr. Casey said. Congress in 1995 banned the use of federal money for research in which embryos are "destroyed, discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death."

Conservatives Divided Over Bush's Decision
By Kathy Gambrell / UPI
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Conservative political and religious groups are eyeing President Bush's decision to allow limited stem cell research with caution with some believing that it protects the life of unborn children while others say it opens the door to expanded federal funding at a later date. Olivia Gans, spokeswoman for the National Right to Life Committee said the organization was "quite delighted" that Bush prevented further killing of embryos for experimentation. "We mourn the deaths of children killed to provide the existing stem cell lines," Gans said. "But this protects the embryonic children at risk." (Pro-Life Fantasy: "Now they're embarking upon stem-cell regulations")

Bush Supports Federal Funds for Existing Stem Cell Lines
FOX News
After months of deliberations, President Bush announced approval Thursday night for federal funding for limited medical research on stem cells extracted from human embryos. "I have made this decision with great care and I pray it is the right one," Bush said in the first prime-time speech of his presidency. (Prov.28:9)

Bush Follows Laura's Lead
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- First Lady Laura Bush said embryonic stem cell research could save lives but doesn't know whether her husband will allow federal funding for the science. The research involves cells extracted from embryos that are left over from fertility treatments. Supporters tout the potential for medical breakthroughs, but opponents say it's wrong to use human embryos for research. In order to remove the stem cell, the embryo must be destroyed.

'She Gave Me Of The Tree, And I Did Eat'
Genesis 3:6-12
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat... And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

'The Day That Thou Eatest Thereof Thou Shalt Surely Die'
Genesis 2:16-17
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Flashback to August 11, 2001

Lying Prez Now In ‘Middle' Of Nowhere
By Rod Dreher / New York Post
Read his lips. He lied. George W. Bush said during his campaign, and publicly reiterated as recently as May, that he believed using embryonic stem cells for research purposes was immoral. Now, he has shown that he either has not the courage of his convictions, or has no true convictions. Pro-life social conservatives, who were told by the Bushies during the fall campaign not to worry, that he really was one of us, despite his silence, have been betrayed. Bush's decision is being hailed as a compromise - both sides got something out of it - but fundamentally, it is no such thing.

Stem Cell Sidestep Provides Cover For Bush
American Life League
"Countless millions of real human persons will lose their lives as a direct consequence of President Bush's decision to authorize federal funding for stem cell research," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "Basically, his decision says, 'if babies are already dead, the U.S. has no problem funding research on their body parts,'" said Mrs. Brown.

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