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Top 7 Victories of 2007! |
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1. U.S. Supreme Court upholds federal ban on partial birth abortion and individual states like Louisiana begin to enact local partial birth bans.
2. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka co-discovers the landmark "direct reprogramming" process of creating pluripotent stem cells without destroying embryos and states the following in the New York Times:
"'When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters,' said Dr. Yamanaka, 45, a father of two and now a professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences at Kyoto University. 'I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.'"
3. Dolly the sheep cloner, Ian Wilmut, abandons his U.K. project to clone human embryos for destructive experiments due to new "direct reprogramming" method that allows scientists to use skin cells to create patient-specific stem cells without cloning, human embryos or eggs. Wilmut describes the alternative method as having more scientific potential as well as being "easier to accept socially."
CAVEAT: Harvard scientists have announced that they will pursue their quest to clone human embryos to destroy these human lives for embryonic stem cells. We still need your voice in support of BDF's legal and policy efforts to assist legislatures to ban human cloning.
4. Seoul, South Korea kicks off legal efforts in one of the first Asian pro-life movements -- a decisive response of Cardinal Nicholas Cheong to the human cloning deceptions by Dr. Hwang Woo-Suk.
5. In a stunning November defeat, New Jersey voters soundly rejected a "Stem Cell Bond Act" ballot initiative that would have sunk $450 million in taxpayer dollars into clone and kill experiments that create and destroy human embryos. Missouri citizens launch "Cures Without Cloning" ballot initiative to combat the deceptions of last year's state constitutional right to clone.
6. Bella, an artistic and life-affirming film, wins the "People's Choice Award" at Toronto Film Festival and touches the hearts of millions at theatres around the nation. Bella Executive producer Steve McEveety is special guest at BDF's "Passion for Life" event.
7. Senate confirms Prof. Mary Ann Glendon, a leading voice for authentic feminism and the human right to life, as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican.
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