GOP Presidential candidate John Cox: "No Human Embryo is Safe from Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats;" Hails New Amniotic Stem Cell Research

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Monday, Jan. 8, 2007

As the Democrats are about to launch their destructive "100 legislative hour march" in the U.S. House of Representatives, they are leading it off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to push a bill through Congress to allow a "clone and kill" policy on human embryos.

But John Cox, the first Republican candidate for president in 2008, says that her plans put the unborn in danger, which would allow Federal funding for the destruction of human embryos in labs.

"The entire embryonic stem cell debate has been stoked by the liberal media and liberal elites to have human embryos declared 'non-persons' so they can further debase life and promote their pro-abortion, Clone and Kill agenda," said Cox, who said he favors adult stem cell research, which actually may lead to cures for those like his nieces, who have juvenile diabetes, and his wife, who has rheumatoid arthritis.

Cox is also hailing the discovery, released today, that amniotic fluid may hold promise in creating viable stem cells WITHOUT DESTROYING HUMAN EMBRYOS, according to scientists at Harvard and Wake Forest Universities.

Doctors say cells from the human placenta and from amniotic fluids could be used to create cells for research purposes that can lead to cures to diseases.

There is no evidence that cells from human embryos can be used in this way.

"This new research confirms how the stem cell issue has been manipulated all along by politicians for their own personal gain."

Cox says an example of this manipulation is the case in Missouri and Maryland during this past November’s election in which actor Michael J. Fox appeared in TV commercials to deliberately blur the lines between adult stem cell research - which is non-controversial - and embryonic stem cell research - which requires the fertilization of an human egg, cloning it, and then destroying it to harvest the cells it creates.

John Cox, the son of a single mother, is pro-life without exception, and often says he might very well have been aborted himself had abortion been legal when he was born in 1955. Abortion became legal nationwide after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision.

John H. Cox, 51, is the former president of the Cook County (IL) Republican Party. He is a CPA, real estate broker, attorney and investment advisor. John Cox lives in Chicago, IL with his wife and four daughters. For more information, visit www.cox2008.com