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Legislators Seek to Make Embryonic Stem Cell Research a Felony


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Which is the state's rights to do such things. Minnesota dont want it....others might.

 

That whole pesky Federalism thing at work.

 

You are correct...

 

They're legislating morals, which is bull ****.

 

And...you are correct.

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Are you feeling ok?

 

Wanted to preempt you two dipshits engaging in a useless argument about completely different and mutually exclusive statements. Seems it worked. Yay, me!

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Tell me when it passes.

 

Bill to criminalize embryonic stem cell research passes through House, Senate committees

 

 

Committees in both the Minnesota Senate and House passed a bill this week that would criminalize the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) process in embryonic stem cell research as well as prohibit the products of that research from entering the state of Minnesota. Despite expert testimony that the bill would hamper medical research in Minnesota, it passed three key committees this week.

 

The Senate’s Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety heard the bill on Thursday.

 

John Wagner, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota and the Stem Cell Institute, said the bill would harm research at the university. He also implied that the bill’s title, The Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2011, was misleading.

 

There are two kinds of uses for SCNT, he told the committee: one is to create a living, breathing human clone, also called “reproductive cloning,” and another is to use SCNT for “therapeutic cloning” to create stem cell treatments for treating disease. Wagner said that no one is trying to create whole human beings with the reproductive cloning, but many researchers are using SCNT to create stem cells for medical purpose.

 

http://minnesotaindependent.com/79013/bill-to-criminalize-embryonic-stem-cell-research-passes-through-house-senate-committees

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