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U.S. anti-abortion activists continue to campaign against stem cell research.

1999

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Led by Senator Sam Brownback and organized by the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity in Illinois, anti-abortionists campaign against stem cell research. They release a statement arguing that embryonic stem cell research is "scientifically unnecessary."

This statement is in anticipation of a report released by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) vying for stem cell research and arguing that the: "extraction of stem cells from embryos (which involves the embryos' destruction) and research on stem cells are ethically acceptable for federal funding" (BioNews, 1999).

Frank Young, one of the activists behind the anti-stem cell statement, will compare these: "tissue therapies from embryonic stem cells to the making of saddles from human skins by Nazi Germans" (BioNews, 1999).

Stem cell research continues today, and is applied to regenerative therapies, which help the body heal the impacts of disease, injury, and aging.