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Key Points for
Letter Writing
"Please write to your elected
representatives to make them aware of your
views on 'assisted human reproduction.'
Please write to your Member of Parliament and also to:
The Honourable Alan Rock, Minister of Health (from Dec 01/01 until Feb
28/02)
We recommend that you also send letters to the Prime Minister's
Office.
For addresses/contact info, please see our
contact info page.
The most effective letter is one that you write yourself. To assist
you in doing that, we have prepared some sample paragraphs that you
can incorporate into your letter in whole or part. (The "Key Points"
are becoming "Sample Paragraphs.")
For those who would rather sign and send a pre-written letter, we have
some sample letters (click here). Please print out the letter that best
expresses your views and send it."
These may be
useful in writing letters to your M.P., in contacting the media, in
conversations and in matters to pray about.
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legislation does propose to and should prohibit human cloning, the
transplanting of sperm, ova and embryos from animals into human beings
and vice versa, and the commodification of human reproduction. We
support these measures and hope that they become law.
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legislation does not prevent the procreation of ‘chimeras’, creatures
part human and part animal. We have no right to procreate such
creatures, for their sakes and the good of all humanity. We must urge
legislators to ban this practice.
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legislation does not prevent embryonic human beings from being
destroyed in harvesting their stem cells for the sake of research. We
must urge legislators to prohibit all destruction of embryonic human
beings. It is ironic that the legislation seeks to prohibit the
procreation of human beings for the purpose of such research but does
allow those already procreated to be killed.
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legislation does not prevent the donation of sperm, ova, womb space
and embryos, allowing human procreation to take place apart from the
stable and committed relationship of marriage. Human reproduction
using donated sperm, ova, wombs and embryos does not respect the
dignity of procreation. Procreation is reduced from the creation of a
person as the result of a personal act to the manufacture of a thing.
To contact
your M.P., please refer to the M.P. contacts
here.
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