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From: "Peter Christiansen" <>
Subject: Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation--Quality of Life Grant
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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:50:24 -0800
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This year is special for me, because I turn 50 on
September 25th.
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Senators, Scientists, Join with Patient Advocates to Support
Promising Medical Research, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (aka
Therapeutic Cloning )
Christopher Reeve; Senators Kennedy, Specter, and
Feinstein; Nobel Prize Winner; Activists; and Parents
Say SCNT Could Mean New Treatments, Cures; Urge Senate
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Washington, DC Christopher Reeve, medical researchers,
and patient advocates, on behalf of the Coalition for
the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR), joined today
with Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA), Arlen Specter
(R-PA), Diane Feinstein (D-CA), and others to urge the
Senate to support an important research pathway, somatic
cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), otherwise known as
therapeutic cloning.
SCNT gives hundreds of millions of people around the
world who are afflicted with a wide variety of diseases
and disabilities exactly the kind of chance that we
need, said Reeve, Chairman of the Christopher Reeve
Paralysis Foundation, in remarks at a press conference
shortly before he testified at a hearing on SCNT by the
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Committee.
Senate leaders, patient advocates, and prominent
scientists support SCNT, because it could lead to new
treatments and cures for the more than 100 million
Americans facing now-incurable illnesses such as cancer,
Parkinson s, Alzheimer s, diabetes, ALS, and spinal
cord injury. Although SCNT fundamentally is different
from reproductive cloning, drawing support from the
National Academy of Sciences and leading doctors and
medical researchers around the country, it would be
banned under legislation that goes to the Senate floor
in a few weeks.
For me, SCNT is about hope the hope that science may
find a way to help my two-year old daughter, who cannot
walk, talk, comprehend, or use her hands because she
has the incurable genetic disorder, Rett Syndrome,
said Elizabeth Johns Howard, mother of Allison, who
spoke at the press conference.
Given the scientific potential in this area, CAMR
strongly opposes any legislative or regulatory action
that would ban research related to SCNT. However, CAMR
does support efforts to prohibit human reproductive
cloning while protecting important areas of medical
research, including stem cell research.
The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research
(CAMR) is comprised of nationally-recognized patient
organizations, universities, scientific societies,
foundations, and individuals with life-threatening
illnesses and disorders advocating for the advancement
of breakthrough research and technologies in
regenerative medicine including stem cell research and
somatic cell nuclear transfer in order to cure disease
and alleviate suffering.
CONTACTS
Maggie Goldberg
Director of Communications
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
800/225-0292
Tricia Brooks
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
202/833-0355
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