Word: stemming
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While there are reasons that many oppose stem cell research, their considerations are not strong enough to warrant limiting the research. Some oppose embryonic stem cell research because of the belief that it kills a human being: the embryo from which the stem cells are derived. Others note that stem cell research will not produce any tangible results for at least a decade. Still others, especially in debt-ridden California, note the significant monetary expenditures associated with such research. California voters, however, have correctly responded to these concerns...
...While moral opposition to stem cell research is a valid opinion, California voters have shown that the great majority of the state’s residents support the research. Although stem cell research may not produce treatments for many years, the knowledge that we will undoubtedly learn from such a field would make the wait worthwhile. Scientific research is rarely a discipline where new developments occur quickly or easily. Stem cells are no exception, and we should expect many painstaking years of research. The ultimate results of this research, possible cures for diseases ranging from Parkinson?...
...funded with self-financing state bonds that do not cost the state government anything for the first five years. This has won the support of deficit-conscious Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Once funding of research has begun, California retains the right to share in royalties. Additionally, if stem cell research reaches its potential California could easily recoup its losses by cutting its $110 billion annual health care spending...
...country as a whole is headed in the wrong direction for scientific progress. Stem cell research holds promise for the future treatment of chronic diseases; it would be foolish to ignore it. California, historically a trend-setter, has shown us a path which other states would be wise to follow...
...country has moved to the right on social issues. TIME's polling suggests that voters remain where they have been for a very long time: in the moderate middle on the most sizzling social issues. They overwhelmingly favor (69% to 22%) using discarded embryos for stem-cell research; only 9% oppose abortion in all circumstances; and while 58% say they oppose gay marriage, about the same number--60%--approve of some kind of official recognition of gay unions, an AP poll says...