Senate Resolution 23 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                      BY  COURTNEY
  1  3 A Resolution recognizing May 2009 as Huntington's
  1  4    Disease Awareness Month.
  1  5    WHEREAS, Huntington's disease, first described in
  1  6 1873, is a hereditary, progressive, neurodegenerative
  1  7 disorder that gradually robs its victims of their
  1  8 intellect, their emotional well=being, and their
  1  9 control of movement; and
  1 10    WHEREAS, the effects of Huntington's disease are
  1 11 always tragic because as the disease progresses, its
  1 12 victims suffer increasingly from such symptoms as
  1 13 slurred speech, dementia, and writhing movements known
  1 14 as chorea, and because victims in the later stages of
  1 15 Huntington's disease invariably require total personal
  1 16 care, and affected families often bear heavy financial
  1 17 costs in addition to the heartache of watching the
  1 18 health of a mother, father, sibling, or child slowly
  1 19 deteriorate; and
  1 20    WHEREAS, Huntington's disease affects males and
  1 21 females equally and crosses all ethnic and racial
  1 22 boundaries, and everyone who carries the gene will
  1 23 develop the disease and will die; and
  1 24    WHEREAS, the existence of this dreaded disease
  1 25 presents a challenge to the love and humanitarianism
  1 26 of the American people; and
  1 27    WHEREAS, since the discovery of the genetic basis
  1 28 for the disease in 1993, the pace of research into the
  1 29 cause and nature of the disease has increased
  1 30 dramatically; and
  2  1    WHEREAS, the Huntington's Disease Society of
  2  2 America, Inc., has supported this research, bringing
  2  3 new hope to those who bear the burden of this tragic
  2  4 affliction; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  5    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2  6 recognizes the month of May 2009 as Huntington's
  2  7 Disease Awareness Month in Iowa, and urges the
  2  8 citizens of this state to lend their support to
  2  9 efforts to control this disease so that the suffering
  2 10 it induces may be eliminated.
  2 11 LSB 2725SS 83
  2 12 jr/rj/14