WHY THE LOCKHART REVIEW IS FATALLY FLAWED

• Letter and explanatory document from DO NO HARM to every Federal MP & Senator (see below)
  
  
• Public lecture (extracts) by eminent lawyer Frank Brennan on Lockhart and ‘community standards'
  
  
• DO NO HARM Blogs on the Lockhart Committee

Lockhart Lobby – get a Blog!

Here's a story – Lockhart Chair advises World Cloning Lobby

The Great Lie at the heart of the cloning debate

Report to PM today says: No new scientific evidence to justify cloning.

Lookout Lockhart Lobby – you've been Googled !

• Overview document from DO NO HARM: “What has changed since 2002?”

PLEASE SEE FULL DOCUMENT ATTACHED

Dear…

You may shortly be faced with a decision whether or not to vote for a bill to remove the existing prohibition on human cloning which was passed by the Parliament, without a single dissenting vote, just four years ago.

Proponents of such a bill are relying substantially on the Lockhart Review which  recommended that cloning should be permitted "to create and use human embryo clones for research, training and clinical applications".

In deciding how to vote it may be helpful for you to consider the following substantial flaws (Details with references are given in the document attached) in the Lockhart Report.

1. Half the members of the Lockhart Review were already on the record as supporting human cloning. The recommendations reflect their well-established personal views.

2. The Lockhart Review relied on fraudulent science. The six month period in which it conducted its inquiry (June-December 2005) coincided exactly with the period in which the whole world was conned into believing that Korean scientists had achieved major breakthroughs in the science of human cloning.

3. The Lockhart Review failed to disclose that over 80% of the submissions it received opposed any change to the prohibition on human cloning.

4. The Lockhart Review ignored completely the key published paper on Australians attitudes to cloning for research which found that 63% of Australians were not comfortable with scientists using cells created by cloning.

5. The Lockhart Review exceeded its brief by revisiting the fundamental ethical issue on whether it was right to create human embryos solely for research. This issue was decided decisively by the Parliament in 2002.

As Senator Kay Patterson said "it is wrong to create human embryos solely for research. It is not morally permissible to develop an embryo with the intent of truncating it at an early stage for the benefit of another human being".

If we can be of any further help to you as you consider the cloning please don't hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely

Richard Egan
Do No Harm : Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research