Event: Cures Not Clones
Patients, Researchers, Celebrities, and Grassroots Leaders Hold Briefing Wednesday on Need to Ban All Human Cloning
Recent news has circulated that a renegade fertility specialist may have implanted a cloned embryo, and that the pregnancy is at least eight weeks along. While most oppose human cloning for live birth, “research cloning” is its necessary precursor. In addition to the moral arguments against human cloning for destructive research, scientific advances continue to disprove the claim that research cloning is the most promising avenue for real therapies.
| WHAT: | “Cures Not Clones,” a briefing for Senate Staff and credentialed media |
| WHEN: | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:30am – 12:00pm |
| WHERE: | Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 562 |
| WHO: |
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, primary Patricia Heaton, two-time Emmy winner best Joni Eareckson Tada, Director Emeritus, Dr. Anton-Lewis Usala, Founder of two Dr. Jean Peduzzi-Nelson, Neuroscientist James Kelly, patient advocate with spinal cord Dr. Tom P. Dooley, CEO of Huntsville biotech Margaret Colin, Film and Broadway star, known Chuck Colson, Chairman, Prison Fellowship William Kristol, Editor of “The Weekly |
RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED – Briefing will begin promptly
at 10:30.
CONTACT: For more information on Americans to Ban Cloning
or on the briefing, call 703/684-8352.
Note to Hispanic Media: there will be a short
presentation in Spanish
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