ILLINOIS: Jill Stanek Gives Chapter and Verse on Illinois Clone and Kill Bill

[Murray Charters <mcharters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ILLINOIS: Jill Stanek Gives Chapter and Verse on Illinois Clone and Kill Bill

SPRINGFIELD, May 10, 2004, (LifeSiteNews.com) - In yesterday's Illinois Leader, 
Jill Stanek listed specific problems
with Illinois House Bill 3589, a bill she calls a clone and kill bill.

Calling the proposals of the bill "lunacies" Stanek details the dangers: "HB 
3589 has no cut-off age that embryos can
be grown for experimentation? it would be legal for researchers to grow embryos 
to the age of eight weeks?" She points
out that the ambiguities of the language allow for "researchers to implant 
three, six - heck, why not 12? - newly
created embryos into a willing, fertile woman for the purpose of harvesting 
them for experimentation several weeks
later."

Stanek further points out that even though the bill appears to prohibit 
commercial surrogate motherhood, exception
clauses allow the activity. She says, rhetorically, "Someone please explain the 
difference between purchasing, selling,
reasonable payment, reimbursement, and remuneration." She warns that the bill 
will create a market for aborted babies.
"The bill welcomes dead fetuses for scientific experimentation, and it does not 
prohibit killing them for that reason.
In other words, HB 3589 would legalize experimentation on preborn babies, no 
matter what age. Killing fetuses and
aborting them intact is simple enough. It's done every day."

On the issue of human cloning, Stanek calls Senator Schoenberg's two amendments 
into question saying they, "attempt to
overcome the bill's major obstacle - cloning. They forbid 'cloning of a human 
being? into a new human individual' but
leave language intact that permits 'research involving? somatic cell nuclear 
transplantation,' i.e., cloning."

Pro-life researchers have made precisely the same points about the use of 
deceptive language and loopholes in other
bills regarding cloning and stem cell research. Campaign Life Coalition made 
identical criticisms about Canada's stem
cell bill which was passed last fall. Liberal MP Paul Szabo fought then Bill 
C-13 (finally C-6) in the House on the
grounds that where the bill proclaimed to prohibit morally offensive research 
activities such as cloning and embryonic
research, due to poor definitions and exception clauses, it actually completely 
failed to ban them. The use of this
kind of deceptive language in legislation is becoming commonplace. In numerous 
US state bills, identical wording can be
found proposing to ban cloning which actually allows the activity with no 
restrictions.

Jill Stanek has led the pro-life movement in Illinois in the fight against 
partial birth abortion in that state.
President Bush invited her to the White House when he signed the ban. Stanek is 
also pro-life coordinator for Concerned
Women for America of Illinois.

To read Stanek's full column:


SOURCE: LifeSite Daily News


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