We are uniting across America to make our voices heard in Washington to stop a major tragedy from occurring on a daily basis as women routinely discard their umbilical cord after giving birth, completely unaware of its potential life-saving properties.

ONE CHANCE ONLY
Cord blood is the blood rich in stem cells that remains in a baby's umbilical cord and placenta following birth. Precious stem cells like these are being used today to treat over 70 life-threatening diseases including many different cancers, genetic disorders, and blood and immune deficiencies. And the list keeps growing. Women have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, immediately after the birth of their baby, to preserve their baby's cord blood for use by their own family, or donate it to a public bank for community use, or to throw it away. Regrettably, this amazing resource is being discarded, its potential benefits lost forever, due to lack of knowledge by the mother. Cordbloodrights.org is about making sure every woman is aware she has choices.

ACT NOW
One by one we can stand up and make our voices heard in Washington.

Email your congressmen and senators to enact legislation that would require OBGYNs and midwives to inform all pregnant women, before their third trimester, of their options to discard their umbilical cord blood stem cells after birth, publicly donate them expense-free to a licensed public bank, or save for their child and family.