Sentences with phrase «favors embryonic stem cell research»

Breaking ranks with the Bush administration, Pirro said she favors embryonic stem cell research and argued the federal ban on assault weapons should not have been allowed to expire.

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Recently, however, I was alarmed to hear that my fellow Delawareans voted to oust Representative Mike Castle, a solid moderate who pushed for embryonic stem cell research and was handily elected as the Republican representative of a largely Democratic state for nine consecutive terms, in favor of Christine O'Donnell, who, as far as I can tell, is a houseplant.

«Genetically, this type of clone is still a member of our species,» says David Prentice, a cellular biologist at Indiana State University and cofounder of Do No Harm, a group of scientists favoring alternatives to embryonic stem cell research.

The 50 - year - old Faustman says her work also undermines an important rationale for a favored subject of diabetes research, embryonic stem cells.

It wasn't until 1999 that his Bioethics Commission concluded that embryonic stem - cell research was a legitimate reason for embryo destruction, and thus favored overturning Dickey - Wicker.

I pray for the day when James A. Thomson and others in favor of human embryonic stem cell research think about it enough to be totally uncomfortable.

That study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its pattern of giving shifted over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.

Those in favor of human embryonic stem - cell research because they believe it could save human lives are, for the most part, also for human - bovine embryonic stem - cell research because they believe it could save human lives.