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Release Date: April 27, 2006

CBHD Disappointed by Blagojevich Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Chicago, Illinois - April 27, 2006 - The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (CBHD) is disappointed by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's awarding of grants to fund research that will include use of embryonic stem cells. While the desire to heal people is certainly laudable, good ends should not be pursued via unethical means.

"Human embryos are not potential human beings but human beings with potential," said CBHD President Dr. Andrew Fergusson. "Have we not yet learned that devaluing one group of human beings for the alleged benefit of others is a price we simply cannot afford to pay?"

Existing treatments that use umbilical cord-blood and bone marrow stem cells, which are ethically non-problematic, expose the fact that research requiring the destruction of human embryos is unnecessary for medical progress.
 

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The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity is a 501(c)(3) non-profit 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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