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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Bioethics

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Letter to Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle
Letter to the Honorable Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin, regarding Assembly Bill 499 (October 3, 2005).
Read the letter (25 KB PDF)

Letter to the Honorable John Carey
Letter to the Honorable John Carey, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and Financial Institutions in Ohio from BIO, regarding House Bill 66.
Read BIO's statement (15.1 KB PDF)

Testimony before the Texas House
Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) before the Texas House of Representatives State Affairs Committee, regarding House Bill 1929: The Use of Human Cells and Tissue. (April 11, 2005)
Read BIO's testimonial. (153 KB PDF)

Testimony before the Maryland House
Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) before the Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee opposing House Bill 885: The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2005. (March 3, 2005)
Read BIO's testimonial. (37 KB PDF)

Testimony before the Maryland Senate
Testimony of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) before the Maryland Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee in support of Senate Bill 751: The Maryland Stem Cell Research Act of 2005. (March 2, 2005)
Read BIO's testimonial. (31 KB PDF)

State Legislative Toolkit
The Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR), along with BIO created a legislative toolkit for states to use to campaign in support of proactive stem cell research legislation and to educate legislators on the issue.
View the toolkit

BIO Letter to Washington Representative Shay Schual-Berke, M.D.
Supporting House Bill 1268, which would preserve therapeutic cloning research in the state (January 31, 2005).
Read BIO's statement. (96 KB PDF)

BIO Joins Gov. McGreevey and Others in Advocating Fewer Restrictions on Life-Saving Research
"The powerful properties of embryonic stem cells - consistently demonstrated in peer-reviewed studies - have generated excitement in the scientific community." (July 27, 2004).
Read Michael Werner's statement.

BIO Letter to Louisiana Representative Sydnie Mae Durand
Supporting Senate Bill 74, which would preserve therapeutic cloning research in the state (May 26, 2004).
Read the letter. (73 KB PDF)

BIO Letter to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco
Opposing House Bill 803, which would prohibit all forms of human cloning in the state (May 7, 2004).
Read the letter. (124 KB PDF)

Senate Bill 1909
Testimony in support of legislation to encourage human stem cell research (November 4, 2002).
Read the testimony.

Senate Bill 2118
Letter to Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack (March 29, 2002).
Read the letter.

Recommendations
For State Privacy Legislation.
Read the recommendations.




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