"pro-living position" California's (& WI & NJ) Stem Cell Gold Rush

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Good, as this terminology twists the Pro-life of jargon of the WH/Right!!! to a positive phase:-)

"I'm with the hopers on this, and also hope President Bush opens his mind to the medical scientists' patient-oriented, pro-living position."


California's Stem Cell Gold Rush

By WILLIAM SAFIRE

Published: December 15, 2004

With the federal government hanging back, the states are rushing to fill the void on stem cell research.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/15/opinion/15safire.html?oref=login&th


.....Californians voted 3 to 2 to pour $300 million a year for a decade into embryonic stem cell research - 10 times the current rate of federal support - in hopes of finding treatments or cures for a variety of diseases. Unless regeneration degenerates into a boondoggle, the state will thereby become the global center for such advanced research.

Wisconsin, where researchers may have been the first to isolate and grow human embryonic stem cells, was "galvanized and focused" by the California challenge, said its governor, Jim Doyle. He promptly proposed spending $750 million to bolster his state's biotech industry.

New Jersey's new acting governor, Richard Codey, whose state was early in endorsing stem cell research, says he will invest $9.5 million in his state's new research institute, and he is trying to boost that in a consortium with Pennsylvania and Delaware.