According to this piece from LifeNews.com editor Steven Ertelt (March 31), the National Right to Life Committee is warning members of Congress of a bill it anticipates will seek to overturn the longstanding 1996 Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits the creation of human embryos for research.
Writes Ertelt,
The NRLC letter says “there is a substantial chance that you will soon see an attempt to ram through the House of Representatives, on short notice, legislation that would authorize federal funding of research on human embryos created specifically to be used in research.”
The DeGette embryo destruction bill would “open the door to federal funding of human cloning and human embryo farms,” the pro-life group told LifeNews.com.
The letter explains that, contrary to assurances given to members of Congress in the past, the DeGette bill “will not limit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the use of human embryos who are donated by their parents after being ‘left over’ at in vitro fertilization clinics.”
Instead, the measure would “empower NIH to use human embryos created especially to be used in research, including embryos created by human cloning,” NRLC indicates.
