Vote NO on Prop 73
If you're in California or know anyone in California, please read and pass on this important message from our friend Don Reed:
PROP 73 THREATENS STEM CELL RESEARCH
As the father of a paralyzed young man, I strongly support embryonic stem cell research, and am very much afraid Californians will overlook a new threat to our beautiful stem cell program.
California’s November 8 special election ballot contains a sneak attack on stem cell research.
Proposition 73, the "Parental Notification" initiative, has a "poison pill" which may criminalize stem cell research.
Proposition 73 would place a new definition of life into the California State Constitution: establishing precedent that life begins at the instant of conception: language which refers to an embryo as "the unborn child, a child conceived but not yet born.
This is something new: potential legal grounds to make the entire field of embryonic stem cell research unconstitutional.
If microscopic cells can be legally re-defined as a child, then scientists doing embryonic stem cell research could be said to be murdering a person. New grounds for lawsuits might stop the research altogether: at very least leading to years of litigation and delay, as the case winds its way through the courts, perhaps all the way up to an increasingly conservative Supreme Court.
Because Proposition 73 would be put into the California State Constitution, the damage would be permanent, ongoing, and almost impossible to undo.
Anyone who supports stem cell research should mark the calendar, and VOTE November 8th.
The official title is: PROPOSITION 73 Waiting Period and Parental Notification Before Termination of Minor's Pregnancy. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.
Don C. Reed
co-chair, Californians for Cures
www.stemcellbattles.com
John Hlinko @ 09:33 AM
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