For Immediate Release

Contact: Mike Ferguson

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Defending Stem Cell Research

Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures’ Jeff McCaffrey Addresses Efforts to Negate Parts of 2006’s Amendment Two on “Missouri Viewpoints”

(Grandview, MO) – “This research, these cells, this offers a type of hope that we haven’t seen, that we haven’t had…since we started doing polio vaccinations and organ transfers. That’s how revolutionary this type of medicine is.”

That statement comes in defense of Missouri’s (and America’s) most controversial science. In the second half of a special interview series regarding stem cell research in Missouri, Jeff McCaffrey represents the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures and their effort to preserve all components of Amendment Two, which voters approved in 2006.

The first half of the series on this topic featured Ed Martin from the Missouri Roundtable for Life.

McCaffrey says, unlike other coalitions put together for campaigns, the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures remains intact in order to educate the public and those in government about stem cell research and to affect public policy decisions on the issue as efforts are underway to reverse parts of Amendment two.

The Missouri Roundtable is currently promoting an initiative effort to prevent the possibility of public funding being used for embryonic stem cell research in Missouri. Public monies are not being used to fund embryonic stem cell research in the state now.

McCaffrey says it is important to preserve the current status of embryonic and adult stem cell research in Missouri because those with diseases or injuries who could potentially benefit from therapies developed through the processes “…worry about not having access to the best medical research and subsequent treatments that are derived from it.”

The first segment of the two-part interview is now available at www.missouriviewpoints.com. The second part of the interview, which addresses the ethical debate over embryonic stem cell research and specifically Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (what critics call human cloning) as well as the ethics of acquiring fertilized human eggs for research, will be released and posted at that same site this Wednesday, February 4^th.

To learn more about the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, visit www.missouricures.com.

To see the two-part interview with Ed Martin from the Missouri Roundtable for Life, visit the “Past Shows” page on “Missouri Viewpoints”.

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