Join the Effort to Oppose Federal Approval of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Help Collect 100,000 SignaturesFor Letter to Senate and President

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H.R.3 passed the U.S. House of Representatives on January 11, 2007. It provides taxpayer funding for the kind of stem cell research that will result in the destruction of living human beings in their embryonic stage of life.

The next action is in the U.S. Senate. A vote has not yet been scheduled. If the Senate passes this bill as it did in the last

Quotes from
Pope John Paul II

"The human being is single, unique, and unrepeatable, someone thought of and chosen from eternity, someone called and identified by name"
Christmas message
1978

"Every individual man is an end in himself and can never be used as a mere means for reaching other goals not even in the name of the well-being and progress of the community as a whole."
Address to health care workers
1996

"The State is no longer the 'common home' where all can live together on the basis of principles of fundamental equality, but is transformed into a tyrant State, which arrogates to itself the right to dispose of the life of the weakest and most defenseless members . . ."
Gospel of Life
1995

Congress, the last hope is a veto by President George W. Bush. President Bush vetoed similar legislation during the summer of 2006.

ACTION

Join us in collecting 100,000 signatures for a letter to U.S. Senators and President Bush asking them to oppose the bill in Congress that is intended to fund the kind of stem cell research that will result in the death of living human being in their embryonic stage.

Join us in building a national network of Catholics to help educate fellow parishioners, friends, and government officials that embryos are unique, unrepeatable living human beings in a very vulnerable and dependent stage of life.

Ask family members and friends across the country to come to this website to sign this letter to U.S. Senators and President Bush in opposition to embryonic stem cell research.
Download a copy of the letter (Spanish) and ask members of your parish or organization to join you in signing it. Send the completed copies to Catholics for the Common Good. The address and fax number are on the form.
Please call or write your U.S. Senators today and ask him of her to oppose the embryonic stem cell research bill. Find the name and contact information for your Senator
Work to correct erroneous and possibly misleading statements in the media and by elected representatives ? contact newspaper editors or radio and TV commentators whenever they refer to "embryonic stem cell research" as "stem cell research." Demand that they be more precise (and thereby intellectually honest) by preserving the distinction between stem cell research that does no harm and research that results in the destruction of living human beings. See article: Stem Cell Research is Good.

DOWNLOADBLE RESOURCES

USCCB Q&A on stem cell research and cloning
Stem Cell Research is Good (reprint)

The notion of killing any person for scientific experimentation or the medical treatment of another is repugnant. This must stop. But this will not happen without a massive educational effort across the country.

RELATED SOCIAL TEACHINGS

Gospel of Life Encyclical JPII
Living the Gospel of Life: US Bishops
Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation
The Views of the Holy See on Human Embryonic Cloning (presented to the United Nations)

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