Stem cell funding goes down in New Jersey
In what the New York Times is calling "a stunning defeat," voters in New Jersey rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to borrow $450 million over 10 years to fund stem cell research. The Star-Ledger reports that the defeat doesn't seem so much about stem cells as it is about voter frustration over the state's fiscal condition. The measure had been opposed by conservatives, anti-abortion groups and the Roman Catholic Church. Said the head of New Jersey Right to Life to the AP, "This was an ill-conceived plan from the beginning. In the end, New Jersey citizens saw through this loan-to-clone scheme and soundly rejected it."
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almost everything is beginning to become artificial. In the middle ages, this was not the case- everything was sacred, foremost the human body. Consequentially, in the middle ages performing autopsies of cadavers was taboo and rarely done. In fact most of the anatomical knowledge of the time was taken from the flawed predictions of the ancient greeks or autopsies done on animals. Imagine if the world was still this way, medical science as we know it would be nonexistent. Realizing that these sacred precautions were really just fabrications of man benefited mankind extensively. The technology to study and use stem-cells is here, I ask its opposition: If mankind is so sacred, why don't we all join together and help it...what is the alternative?? to let people die senselessly
- by Wes on Nov 7, 2007 at 5:44 PM | link