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Open Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research

Target: President Barack Obama
Sponsored by: Care2

The Bush Administration's ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research has set back medical research on cures for Parkinson's disease, cancer and other diseases.

Fear of violating Bush's edict (even for something as minor as buying office supplies with federal funding) caused many researchers and institutions logistical headaches. Lifting these restrictions would free researchers to spend less time being concerned about government red tape and more time focusing on research.

President Obama pledged on the campaign trail to reverse the restrictions, opening federal funding for medical research. But he recently said it might be something for Congress to adopt instead. We need to enable stem cell research immediately! Tell Obama now that one of his first acts as president should be to act on his commitment to stem cell research!

deadline: 12-12-2009
goal: 10,000

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Dear President Obama,

Thank you for your pledged support of federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. Stem cell research is critical for developing cures to diseases like Parkinson's and cancer that afflict millions of Americans. I urge you to make reversing the Bush administration's ban on this funding one of your first acts as president.

Allowing federal grants and National Institutes of Health funding to go toward human embryonic stem cell research will open up hundreds of new cell lines to our nation's best researchers. And accelerating the pace of research into these diseases will bring hope to the millions of patients, friends and family members whose lives are affected.

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I look forward to hearing you announce your reversal of the Bush ban in your first week in office.

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We took action on “Open Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research”!

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5:11 pm PST, Nov 9, Kyle Maziuk, Connecticut

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9:05 am PST, Nov 8, Cassidy Swanson, New Hampshire

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11:42 am PDT, Oct 28, Bette Nelson, Washington

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7:08 am PDT, Oct 22, Anita Lock, Ohio

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6:37 pm PDT, Oct 21, Caro Liu, Pennsylvania

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7:05 pm PDT, Oct 19, Tristan Lestat, Alabama

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11:09 am PDT, Oct 19, Tamila Foster-Carter, Kansas

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12:48 am PDT, Oct 18, Can Atik, Turkey

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12:03 am PDT, Oct 18, Name not displayed, Florida

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5:19 pm PDT, Oct 17, Gwenn Meltzer, Pennsylvania

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11:18 pm PDT, Oct 16, Roger Panning, Ohio

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10:41 am PDT, Oct 13, Joy Ellis, Texas

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4:41 am PDT, Oct 13, Carole Hagen, Oregon

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2:12 pm PDT, Oct 12, Michael Popovich, Jr., Arizona

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6:48 pm PDT, Oct 11, Chris McKay, Wisconsin

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9:50 am PDT, Oct 11, Elizabeth Enright, Arizona

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7:18 am PDT, Oct 11, Michael Pacholski, Ohio
My goodness, all the treatment and more over cures that could be available.

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11:06 am PDT, Oct 10, Clyde George, Arizona

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2:31 pm PDT, Oct 9, Lynn Crandall, Arizona

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1:54 pm PDT, Oct 9, Sam Tsang, Illinois

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9:57 am PDT, Oct 6, Julie Linder, Florida

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10:15 pm PDT, Oct 5, Cindy Massey, Colorado
What a loss to just have these cells that could improve and save lives, just be thrown out--like that's more humane.

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9:02 pm PDT, Oct 5, Carol Bostick, California

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4:53 pm PDT, Oct 5, David Brunner, Kansas

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1:28 pm PDT, Oct 5, Jennifer Rogers, New Hampshire

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10:19 pm PDT, Oct 3, Natalie Morris, Washington

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2:09 pm PDT, Oct 3, Elizabeth Davis, Ohio

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