NIH Proposes to Fund Human Embryo Experiments With Tax Dollars
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by Kate Fitzgerald
Copyright 1994 American Life League

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) is considering using your tax 
dollars to fund a broad array of human embryo experiments. Under the 
direction of Dr. Harold Varmus, the NIH has formed a stacked Human 
Embryo Research Panel that is reviewing the "ethics" of these proposed 
experiments, which blatantly disregard the dignity of all human life. 

The experiments they have proposed include:

1) Using eggs from aborted female babies for in vitro fertilization.
2) Inducing pregnancy by stimulating a female embryo's egg - also known 
as "virgin birth."

3) Producing human embryos for experimentation through in vitro 
fertilization, as well as using "discarded" embryos unwanted by women 
and couples undergoing IVF to have a child.

4) Cloning or twinning human embryos - that is, making exact copies of 
individual human beings, which could be used for backup for organ 
donation for a born child; or used for a couple who might lose the 
"original" through death; or even patented as a "model" child.

5) Producing hybridized life forms containing both animal and human 
elements.

6) Keeping only parts of embryos alive in cell culture to provide 
organs for transplantation.

With the panel's approval, these experiments would be conducted under 
the guise of aiding infertile couples with "extended" in vitro 
fertilization research. However, these experiments clearly go far 
beyond that. The result of legitimizing federal funding for these 
experiments would be to open the door to a frontier of actual Brave New 
World proportions at taxpayer expense.

If the NIH panel approves these experiments, preborn babies will be the 
victims of a new series of assaults, and will be subject to the 
scientists' probe as if they were merely mice. It is also likely that 
the approval of such human embryo experimentation would foreclose any 
hope of overturning abortion in the United States.

On behalf of these babies, please act now to express your outrage to 
the chairman of the Human Embryo Research Panel. The panel will hold 
its final meeting at the end of June and then will make recommendations 
to the director of the NIH. Please do not delay in writing your letter 
of protest.

In addition, please inform your Senators and Representative of the 
NIH's proposal to grossly misuse Congressionally appropriated funds, 
and ask that they block these proposed experiments.
Write to:

Steven Muller, Ph.D., Chair
NIH Human Embryo Research Panel 
c/o National Institutes of Health 

9000 Rockville Pike, Building #1, Room 218 
Bethesda, MD 20892

For more information or to participate in our postcard campaign, please 
contact the Government Affairs Office at American Life League.
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