The Stem Cell Action Coalition for Cures was launched this week by the Genetics Policy Institute in an effort to create support for embryonic stem cell research.
“The way it is designed is for our organizations, and state organizations to have an online presence so that each state organization can use that website to have the information about that state’s fight for stem cell research against unreasonable restrictions,” said GPI Executive Director Bernard Siegel.
GPI details its objective on its website: “Our goal is enlist 1,000,000 people across America and the world.”
In this way, GPI hopes to generate enough “political force” to effect legal, regulatory and funding change in order to promote Stem Center Research into treatments.
“Once you have the strength of those numbers of disease groups or science groups or scientific societies behind you, suddenly you have a different sort of voice in Washington [D.C.],” Siegel explained.
Many Christian medical professionals don’t support embryonic stem cell research because of moral and ethical reservations and instead promote advancement in adult stem cell research.
A few weeks ago Christian Medical Association CEO Dr. David Stevens paid tribute to Children’s Hospital researchers for their development of safe alternatives human embryonic stem cells using RNA.
“This breakthrough validates many other significant proofs of the therapeutic promise of induced pluripotent stem cells and adult stem cells,” declared Steven.
However, they remain decisively against the use of embryos to supply embryonic stem cells. “The end doesn’t justify the means,” CMA Vice President Gene Rudd has argued.
GPI counters CMA’s arguments by saying that current medical advancements are not enough to cure diseases like Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease or paralysis. It contends that embryonic research opponents are blocking “the great innovations of our time.”