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Health Alerts from Care2 <healthalerts wrote:28 Oct 2004

15:32:46 -0700

" Mary Riley "

The real story on Prop 71 - Pro-Choice groups say 'No'

" Health Alerts from Care2 "

 

Dear Mary,

 

The election is only days away, and there is one proposition that deserves your

careful review: Proposition 71, the deceptively named " California Stem Cell

Research and Cures Act. "

 

Prop 71 masks itself as a vote against the Bush administration's anti-choice and

anti-science policies. But don't be fooled. Care2 has joined with the Pro-Choice

Alliance Against Prop 71 to bring you the real story behind this proposition:

www.allianceagainstprop71.org

 

 

 

Watch the ad you

won't see on TV!Here is the unfortunate reality: Prop 71 is the wrong way to

support this research. It takes $6 billion of taxpayer money - $3 billion in

bonds plus $3 billion interest - and gives it to an insider group of political

appointees who will be able to make their own rules, with little public input,

control or accountability. And there's no guarantee that California taxpayers

will reap any financial or medical benefits.

 

Prop 71 is an unprecedented taxpayer subsidy for the biotech industry, written

by those who stand to profit the most. And it is dangerously flawed. It allows

scientists to weaken national standards for informed consent and research on

human subjects. It exempts researchers from some current and even future state

laws. The legislature can't amend it for 3 years - and even then it would take a

70% majority plus the Governor!

 

Take a moment and learn the facts about Prop 71: www.allianceagainstprop71.org

 

The Pro-Choice Alliance Against Prop 71 supports embryonic stem cell research,

but the technologies involved have the potential for abuse. The researchers'

need for a huge supply of eggs means " harvesting " them from many thousands of

women. This prospect raises troubling questions about the exploitation of women,

especially those who are young and poor.

 

Scientists and women's health advocates urge very careful and rigorous

regulation of these technologies - and Prop 71 fails on all counts. Important

decisions regarding women's health and human cloning cannot be left to those

with financial interests.

 

We hope you will join the National Women's Health Network, Our Bodies Ourselves,

the California Nurses Association, the California Black Women's Health Project,

the Center for Genetics and Society, the Council on Responsible Genetics, and a

growing list of bio-ethicists, academics, scientists, medical professionals, and

advocates, and Vote No on Prop 71.

 

Thank you for your time today!

 

Rebecca,

Care2 and ThePetitionSite team

 

P.S. The California Nurses Association has taped a 30-second spot opposing Prop

71. To see the ad - which you can't see on TV - and for more information, visit

the Pro-Choice Alliance Against Prop 71: www.allianceagainstprop71.org

Then forward this message to your friends, and vote on November 2nd!

 

 

 

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