Originally Posted: April 13, 2007
Attention fellow Pro-life Tennessee Voters:
I was very disappointed today to learn that Senator Alexander voted for the Reid-Harkin Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act (S.5) on Wednesday. According to senate.gov, this is "A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research."
Senator Alexander had this to say about it on his website:
April 11th, 2007 - “As I did last year, I voted to increase under carefully controlled conditions the number of embryonic stem cell lines that President Bush has already authorized for research. I did so because this research has such enormous promise for life saving treatments that may help cure juvenile diabetes, Parkinson’s, spinal injury and other debilitating conditions. Specifically, I voted for legislation that expands federal funding of research on stem cells derived from fertilized eggs that would otherwise be discarded at fertility clinics.
“I also voted for Sen. Isakson's legislation which makes clear that new stem cell lines may be created from fertilized eggs that have stopped dividing, and which also proposes to create an amniotic and placental stem cell bank.”
I was actually somewhat surprised to learn that Senator Corker voted against the embryonic stem cell research bill because I expect him to be more wishy washy than Sen.Alexander on everything. Alexander has a lot of "correct" votes in my opinion on most of the issues that I care about, but I called his office to inform them that I was very dismayed about his position on this particular vote regarding the sanctity of life.
From information I have read today, President Bush is posed to veto this bill. I will be calling him to thank him in advance.
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