Orrin Hatch Pushes Stem Cell Debate

NewsMax ^ | 5/11/06 | AP

[wagglebee]

Utah Senator Orrin Hatch is pressing Senate leaders to open debate on a package of bills dealing with stem cell research in hopes that Congress could vote to expand the research by the end of May.

Hatch and a bipartisan group of lawmakers back a bill that would loosen restrictions on government-paid research on human embryonic stem cells. He is lobbying Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to take action by May 24th, which would mark a year since the House passed the same bill.

Hatch says Frist has promised to bring the bill up for a Senate vote this year, but has yet to schedule the debate.

Supporters say the cells would help in the search for cures for diseases including Alzheimer's, juvenile diabetes and cancer.

But the process destroys the embryo, considered a life by some religious conservatives, making it a difficult issue for Republicans.

[wagglebee]

There was a time when Hatch was considered among the most conservative members of the Senate and his name was even mentioned as a possible Supreme Court nominee -- this is a huge disappointment.

[wagglebee]

Pro-Life/Embryonic Stem Cell Ping.

[Coleus]

Sen. Hatch is wrong, diabetes can be cured in humans if the proper research is conducted on humans, all they need is the proper funding and not demonic, baby-killing  politics.
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Diabetes in Mice Cured Using Non-Embryonic Sources

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http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact

Patricia Knight
Chief of Staff
Address: 104 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-440
Phone: 202-224-5251
Fax: 202-224-6331

[flaglady47]

I can't believe the total political stupidity of Orin Hatch to try to get Frist to bring this subject up right before the mid-terms when all of the conservatives are in a twitter over the immigration policy bill that the Pubs so stupidly already brought up right before mid-terms. Talking about the Pubs once again shooting themselves in their own feet. Talking about getting their social conservative voting base all riled up at this point in time. Tape Orin Hatch's mouth up until after the mid-terms, for goodness sake!!!!

[muawiyah]

Hatch is driven by his religious beliefs on this one. Otherwise he's pretty Conservative.