Ethical stem cell research

Eligibility - Queensland residents
Principal Petitioner:
M Hanson
51 Jevons Street
THE GAP QLD 4061
Total Signatures - 527
Sponsoring Member: Ronan Lee MP
Posting Date: 3/6/2003
Closing Date: 3/11/2003
Tabled Date: 11/11/2003
Responded By: Responded Minister on 5/1/2004
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

We, the undersigned residents of Queensland, draws to the attention of
the House the following: that thousands of Queenslanders suffer from
debilitating illnesses and diseases such as Parkinson’s, Diabetes,
Cancer, Muscular Dystrophy and Spinal Cord Injury; that Queenslanders
support ethical stem cell research which has already shown encouraging
potential to provide cures and therapies for these illnesses and
diseases; that non-embryonic stem cells, which are also known as adult
stem cells, have shown significant research progress without the immune
rejection, cancer formation or ethical problems associated with
destructive experimentation on embryonic humans.

Your petitioners therefore request the House to focus its legislative
support on adult stem cell research to find the cures and therapies
necessary to treat the illness and diseases of suffering Queenslanders
and that no taxpayers funds are used for destructive embryonic stem cell
research.