[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: OH SB 174 MUST be amended or voted down, would allow cloning and killing of many classes of babies

Thu Apr 24 06:19:51 MDT 2008

*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 24 Apr 2008 AD #2

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*ACTION: OH Senate Committee _Fortunately_ Stalls Vote on Human Cloning Bill
 *

April 24, 2008--Ohio's so-called "Ban on Human Cloning" SB 174 has had 
three hearings and a committee vote has yet to occur in the Senate 
Judiciary Civil Justice Committee to determine passage to go to vote on 
the floor of the Senate, /Deo gratias/.  Even though SB 174 has been 
under review for a year, publicized, and expert testimony of support 
presented there has been no vote on the bill.

Contrary to other reports, PFLI entered in written testimony last week 
to the committee citing numerous areas of the bill that are troubling, 
including the playing loose and fast with vague and nebulous 
definitions. *Bottom line: the bill would LEGALIZE the killing of a 
whole class of baby humans who had the misfortune of not being included 
as a protected class in this bill that has dozens of defects.*

*ACTION: *The Ohio Senate Judiciary Civil Justice Committee meets again 
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 for possible vote on this bill. Please contact 
committee members to support passage of Ohio's Human Cloning Ban ONLY if 
suggested amendments and precise definitions are added to the bill: *The 
bottom line is that the vague and neblous language in the bill makes it 
a 'clone and kill' bill. 
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*Supporters of the bill AS WRITTEN AT PRESENT would allow for human life 
to be created, experimented on and then destroyed. The basic tenet that 
ALL human life is precious and deserving of our protection, not just 
some preborn children whom the misguided supporters would protect.* *The 
substitute amendment supports this basic value and treats ALL human life 
with respect not just those lives that are "fertilized" by the conjugal 
act, or mis-defined with "junk science",  but ALL life even those 
created by all  means, natural or artificial  (e.g. SCNT, twinning, etc).*

Supporters of this bill *AS WRITTEN AT PRESENT* want to play a game of 
semantics by trying to use imprecise and "fake science" in the bill. We 
are not fooled. To reiterate, the bill AS WRITTEN AT PRESENT is a  
'clone and kill' amendment. Human embryos will be cloned, experimented 
on and killed if *SB 174 is passed AS WRITTEN*. This is unacceptable and 
we at PFLI strongly oppose it *AS WRITTEN AT PRESENT*.

*For a detailed analysis of the VAST number of defects in SB 174, go to:
http://www.pfli.org/articles/20080411ohsb174.html*

If you reside in Ohio find your State Senator by going to: 
http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/SenateZipSearch.html 
<http://www.masteredweb.com/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=315&e=MTM0Mzg=&l=-http--www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/SenateZipSearch.html>

*CONTACT INFORMATION FOR OHIO STATE SENATORS*

(Any Senator can be mailed at Ohio Senate, Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, OH 
43215)

Sen. Ron Amstutz, SD22 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD22 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-7505
Sen. Steve Austria, sd10 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd10 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-3780
Sen. John Boccieri, senatorboccieri at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:senatorboccieri at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8285
Sen. Steve Buehrer, SD01 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD01 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8150
Sen. Capri Cafaro, senatorcafaro at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:senatorcafaro at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-7182
Sen. John Carey, sd17 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd17 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8156
Sen. Gary Cates, SD04 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD04 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8072
Sen. Kevin Coughlin, kcoughli at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:kcoughli at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-4823
Sen. Keith Faber, SD12 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD12 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-7584
Sen. Teresa Fedor, fedoroffice at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:fedoroffice at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-5204
Sen. David Goodman, dgoodman at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:dgoodman at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8064
Sen. Tim Grendell, SD18 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD18 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/644-7718
Sen. Bill Harris, SD19 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD19 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8086
Sen. Jeff Jacobson, jjacobso at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:jjacobso at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-4538
Sen. Eric Kearney, Senatorkearney at maildsen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:Senatorkearney at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-5980
Sen. Lance Mason, senatormason at maild.senstate.oh.us 
<mailto:senatormason at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-4583
Sen. Dale Miller, SD23 at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD23 at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-5123
Sen. Ray Miller, rmiller at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:rmiller at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-5131
Sen. Sue Morano, senatormorano at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:senatormorano at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/644-7613
Sen. Larry Mumper, SD26 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD26 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8049
Sen. Tom Niehaus, sd14 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd14 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8082
Sen. Joy Padgett, sd20 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd20 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8076
Sen. Tom Roberts, troberts at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:troberts at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-6247
Sen. Tom Sawyer, senatorsawyer at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:senatorsawyer at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-7041
Sen. Tim Schaffer, SD31 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD31 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-5838
Sen. Robert Schuler, SD07 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD07 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-9737
Sen. Kirk Schuring, SD29 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:SD29 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-0626
Sen. Bill Seitz, sd08 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd08 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8068
Sen. Shirley Smith, senatorsmith at maild.senstate.oh.us 
<mailto:senatorsmith at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-4857
Sen. Robert Spada, rspada at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:rspada at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8056
Sen. Steve Stivers, sd16 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd16 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-0101
Sen. Mark Wagoner, sd02 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:sd02 at mailr.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-8060
Sen. Jason Wilson, senatorwilson at maild.sen.state.oh.us 
<mailto:senatorwilson at maild.sen.state.oh.us> , 614/466-6508

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