Posted on 01/30/2005 12:00:48 PM PST by underlying
Albany, NY (LifeNews.com) -- New York lawmakers want the state to spend as much as $1 billion over the next ten years on stem cell research to keep up with California, where voters recently approved using $6 billion in taxpayer funds for embryonic research and human cloning.
"If the state of New York does not recognize the competitive need, our research scientists are all going to change their tune from 'I Love New York' to 'California, Here I Come,' " Deputy Minority Leader Eric Schneiderman (D- Bronx) told a press conference at City Hall.
Minority Leader David Paterson agreed, saying that New York has traditionally been the "real epicenter and focus of medical research."
Paterson said he hopes New York Governor George Pataki will include funding in the draft of his state budget, scheduled to be released Tuesday.
Paterson indicated his proposal would create a New York Stem Cell Research Institute to monitor research in the state and award grants.
Like California and other states considering investing significant money into the controversial research, New York would raise the funds by selling state bonds.
However, legislators looking for money will run into some of the same problems as those in other states.
First, pro-life groups will want to make sure that funding of embryonic stem cell research does not occur because it involves the destruction of human life. They prefer the use of adult stem cells, which come from more ethical sources and have already produced dozens of cures and treatments.
Secondly, New York lawmakers are facing a massive budget crunch and some will not want to spend money on the research while other programs are being cut.
Sen. Liz Krueger backs the funding idea and says that human cloning should be banned "in order to prevent abuses."
Pro-life groups worry her bill ll will only ban human cloning for reproductive purposes but allow cloning for research.
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Tag you're it, Mamzelle! What is this the 50th thread by now from the same newbie troll, same writer, same site all posted in less than four hours.
Gotcha. This is getting to be fun.
Argh! You got here first!
Post #32 in ~3 hours... same website, same "author"... this troll must be going for a record.
Good gosh; this is out of control.
I thought we weren't suppose to spam and/or try to lure people to our web sites.
Do you suppose this underlying Steve is going to go all the way back to Roe/'73?
Seems so. Sick puppy of a troll.
IMO If such research is to be approved and conducted there absolutely needs to be some sort of formal coordination of all of these efforts or, in the alternative, grouping them all under a Federal umbrella.
It sure is. I've lost count. Is there a possibility that it's a bot or some virus or something?
You could be right! I haven't picked up the trend yet whether it is going forward or backward.
Defintely has an "agenda"... sort of an "in your face" agenda. While I'm opposed to abortion, I do not care one bit about the holy-roller "in your face" types. I was sickened one Sunday when a guest speaker was allowed to exhibit such an approach DURING Mass.
Prolifer who is alienating prolifers?
It's a sick troll, very sick, but it is still a troll.
Yes. Some prolifers seem to take the "holier than thou" approach... "You better agree with me! And be vocal about it!"... Some of us are a tad more reserved.
Great idea: Let's spend $1 billion, cannibalize human embryos, and then contaminate the cell lines! Yea!!!
This is nothing but a $1 billion advertisement for the "pro-choice" philosophy, and thus should be treated as campaign spending subject to FEC regulations.
Seems as though 'ole underlying is ZOT!
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