Word: stemming
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...Stem cells are one of the most promising opportunities facing science, facing medicine today,” Minkoff said. “This poses incredible opportunity to cure disease...
With over half a million dollars set aside for advocacy on behalf of issues ranging from stem cell research to immigration policy, Harvard’s budget for lobbying activities in Washington ranks seventh among national universities, according to a Chronicle of Higher Education study released Friday...
...makes all the political sense in the world: take your wedge issues--abortion, same-sex marriage and stem-cell research--and aim them at a population whose membership in the Roman Catholic Church and other Christian churches exceeds 90%. That's the strategy deployed this season by Focus on the Family, the conservative group run by James Dobson, to try to sway the Hispanic vote for George Bush. Its "Vote por Sus Valores," or "Vote Your Values," radio and television spots began running on Spanish-language media around the country last week--along with a cascade of commercials from...
Many Catholics and social conservatives oppose the research because it means destroying embryos. But partly because of stem-cell advocacy by celebrities like Christopher Reeve, Michael J. Fox and Ron Reagan, fully half of voters now favor developing new cell lines. In the new TIME poll, 49% of voters say Kerry--who would quickly end Bush's funding ban--is closer to their position on the issue; 34% say the President is closer to their view. "Stem cells are an issue that affects persuadable voters," says senior Kerry adviser Tad Devine. Democrats are so giddy about that possibility that they...
Kerry may still remain vulnerable to a wedge attack that can convince swing voters that he doesn't share their values. But the TIME poll shows that voters now find themselves closer to Kerry on stem-cell research, abortion, gay rights and gun control. That means the Bush campaign may not have done enough to convince voters that Kerry is an out-of-touch lefty on those issues. Of course, if the Republicans can do so in the next two weeks, 2004 could still look like 1988 after all. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., Eric Roston and Elaine Shannon/Washington...