ALL CLONING:

Stem cell alliance emerges: Feinstein bill would protect state's new research agency (Gary Delsohn, 8/24/05, Sacramento Bee)

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein joined forces Tuesday to urge Congress to ban human cloning in all 50 states at the same time it protects California's multibillion-dollar stem cell research initiative.

Surrounded by patients and stem cell advocates at the UCLA medical school, the Republican governor and the Democratic senator called on the public to lobby Congress on three pieces of legislation pending in Washington.

"The people have spoken and they have said in California we want you to go ahead with any and all stem cell research that's possible because it has hopes for a cure for literally millions of Americans," Feinstein said of last year's Proposition 71, the state's $3 billion stem cell initiative.

"But this research is in danger. If some in Washington get their way, this research will be stopped in its tracks and scientists will face criminal sanctions. This cannot be allowed to happen."

Pass the law and then explain to these folks that SCNT is cloning.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 24, 2005 3:36 PM