Pro-life activist blasts Senate stem-cell legislation
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
April 4, 2007

A prominent pro-life activist is denouncing two measures the U.S. Senate is taking up next week, measures that would expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. One of those is a measure sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) that is similar to a piece of legislation vetoed by President Bush last year.

An alternative to that bill is one sponsored by Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia) that would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to establish guidelines for stem-cell research on those human embryos that are destroyed by fertility clinics because they are incapable of surviving in the womb.

Although the second bill has been described as a compromise measure, Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics says it is a "baldfaced lie" for Isakson and others to claim those unused embryos from fertility clinics have lost the ability to develop into a human being, because an embryo is a human being. the rest