No, don't be silly. The whole reason the California initiative (and similar measures) have been passed is so that researchers need not depend on the contaminated lines approved for federal funding.
Coleus, you and I will have to agree to disagree on whether or not someone "kills" their children by IVF. Miscarriages happen. If there are 7 attempts, I would be willing to bet that there were never any "extre" embryos.
AntiGuv,
The "initiative" was to allow the researchers in the Ivory Towers to steal taxpayers' money rather than have to get their hands dirty finding financial backers - as most entrepeneurs or inovators in this country would have to do.
Who told these guys they have the right to OPM to buy their toys?
(I guess the same voters who voted for Barbara Boxer and John Kerry. )