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Release Date: December 22, 2005

Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Legislation Brings Gift of Hope this Christmas

Chicago, Illinois - December 22, 2005 - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity is greatly encouraged by the recent passage of both federal and state legislation that recognizes the reality of patient treatments and cures, not through embryonic stem cells, but through stem cells extracted from the umbilical cord blood.
 
"We are elated by news of these two significant pieces of legislation," said CBHD President, Dr. Andrew Fergusson, "as they recognize that science continues to yield treatments and cures without ethical compromise. Embryonic stem cell research is unethical and there are no clinically applicable results foreseeable.”
 
Congress on Saturday passed a bill to establish a national databank of umbilical cord blood and bone marrow that would allow doctors to quickly find a match for patients who need transplants. Thursday, Governor Doyle of Wisconsin signed into law a bill which requires prenatal health care providers to offer pregnant women the option to donate the umbilical cord blood of their newborn child to a blood bank.

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The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity is an international center located just north of Chicago, Illinois. Its mission is to protect human dignity by developing reasoned perspectives on all of today’s bioethical issues and to disseminate them to health care professionals, academia, cultural and church leaders, public policy makers, and the media.CBHD

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