Malin Burnham and his institute the Burnham Institute do indeed believe in stem cell research: all of it embryonic, fetal, and adult. And they use all of it in their research.
He did donate large amounts of money to Proposition 71 in CA. He did speak to the board of California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (what Prop 71 created) about stem cell research. And his Institute was one of the first 72 groups to receive some of the millions in grants awarded from CIRM and Prop 71.
Burnham Institute received their grant for:
"Generation of a library of hESC lines that model a number of human genetic diseases (Burnham Institute)" [hESC = human Embryonic Stem Cells]
Burnham himself is also one of the financial backers of Romney's fundraiser luncheon this weekend in San Diego. If Romney is truly against ESCR (according to the video interview above taken 2 weeks ago), he isn't truly against it, then he or his people would know who was hosting and backing these fundraisers.
All the above information is accessible & verifiable by a few simple Google searches.
He's still buddying up with the pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-destruction of human embryo radicals. This weekend, in fact.
How childish this is. Who cares? They're going to be at the same party. Wow! Say it isn't so!!
Being a conservative means a lot of things. Perhaps they back Romney for his fiscal conservatism, strong position on the war against Islamic jihad, anti-amnesty stance, commitment to small government and strict constructionist judges? Ya think?
I have many liberal friends who have diametrically opposed opinions from mine on nearly every issue. I am not voting for them or putting them in positions of authority in my life and neither is Romney.
Grown ups realize that they can attend parties with and find common ground among a myriad of different people regardless of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. It doesn't change one's own values or opinions. Your world of animosity, distrust, divisiveness and exclusion is not healthy and it is not conducive to good leadership. You should read a couple of Ronald Reagan's books before you set us back 50 years.
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