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Presidential Executive Order Expanding Approved Stem Cell Lines in Ethically Responsible Ways

In recognition of the growing research on pluripotent stem cells derived from non-embryonic stem cell sources - including umbilical cord blood, President George W. Bush issued an Executive Order on June 20, 2007 authorizing research on alternative sources of pluripotent stem cells to be explored without "violation of human dignity or demeaning human life."

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The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005

The Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, HR 2520, became law on December 20, 2005. The act will increase the inventory of cord blood stem cells accessible to the public by 150,000 units before 2009, which creates the possibility of matching unrelated stem cells to more than 90 percent of patients in need.

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"The passage of this non-controversial legislation makes umbilical cord stem cell treatments available as soon as possible to the many people who need them to live. With the passage of this bill, we will now be able to turn medical waste--umbilical cords and placentas--into medical miracles for huge numbers of very sick and terminally ill patients, who suffer from such maladies as leukemia and sickle cell anemia."

Representative Chris Smith, upon passage of the National Stem Cell Research Act of 2005

 
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