"It means I am in favor of stem cell research, like it says. "
That's like saying you're against kicking dogs and for helping little old ladies cross the street.
The argument is against using confiscated tax dollars to conduct research that involves cloning, growing, and destroying embryos to experiment on. Neither the tax money nor the cloning part sound especially conservative to me.
He sounds like another victim of the drive by media. I guess all who call themselves conservative are immune to falling for stupid msm sound bites.