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...lack of a federal policy on human embryonic-stem-cell research--beyond the Bush Administration's restrictions on funding--has left plenty of room for the states to seize the scientific initiative. But when they did--starting in 2002, when California and New Jersey became the first to extend explicit legal protection to such research--the result was a patchwork of laws that has paralyzed some entrepreneurs and galvanized others...
Some form of human embryonic-stem-cell research remains technically legal in almost every state. Only South Dakota bans it altogether, and most states simply have no relevant legislation. Seven states restrict research--including Michigan, which prohibits it on live embryos, making any cutting-edge work all but impossible, and Louisiana, which specifically protects embryos created by in vitro fertilization. A handful of states, including Pennsylvania and Nebraska, do not allow public funding...
...that using human embryos would be taking lives have proposed restrictions four years in a row. Although they failed each time, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo., said last month it would wait on a planned $250 million expansion until state law explicitly protects embryonic-stem-cell research. "If you're scared you'll get shut down," says Leonard Zon, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, "you think seriously about where you should...
...Massachusetts legislature last week backed a pro-research bill by a margin large enough to override an expected veto from Governor Mitt Romney, who promptly sent the bill back to lawmakers with four proposed amendments to weaken it. Zon says the bill, if enacted, would make Massachusetts more "stem cell friendly" than most states. California is the friendliest. Voters there approved Proposition 71 last November, backing $3 billion in state bonds to create a stem-cell-research fund, although delays in creating regulatory boards plus two lawsuits filed by research opponents killed officials' hopes of disbursing the first grants this...
...group called Cures for Florida hopes to get a $1 billion initiative, modeled on Proposition 71, on the statewide ballot next year. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire last week signed a bill allotting $350 million from the state's tobacco-suit settlement to life-science research, which could include stem-cell work. But lawmakers who defeated a bill to protect stem-cell research have promised a fight over how the money is spent when it starts to flow in 2008. New Jersey is mulling a plan to devote $380 million to a research facility and grants. In Wisconsin, where...