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...group of more than 40 social conservative leaders gathered in Salt Lake City and agreed they might bolt the Republican party if the G.O.P. handed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the Republican nomination. The group agreed that Giuliani's more moderate views on abortion, gay rights and stem cells made him unacceptable to social conservatives...
...4.FM: You also teach Government 1093: “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Nature.” What sparked your interest in biotechnology?MJS: Serving on the President’s Council on Bioethics, which I did for four years. It thrust me into debates about stem cell policy, cloning, and genetic engineering. I became fascinared by these topics and brought them into my teaching and writing. One year, I brought my junior seminar to Washington to observe one of the sessions and meet with members of the council. We had a great time.5.FM: As you discuss...
...that he too will have the money for the main event of the Republican race this fall and winter: the head to head bash-a-thon in which the two men accuse the other on the stump and in paid advertising of being soft on abortion, gay marriage, immigration, stem cells, taxes and spending, and the war on terror...
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Kevin C. Eggan expressed frustration at a major stem cell conference on Tuesday about a Massachussetts law that creates roadblocks to medical research. Eggan lamented a state policy that limits access to human eggs by forbidding researchers from compensating women for egg donation. Since its inception in 2004, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute has not obtained a single egg from an eligible donor. Eggan left town immediately after the conference ended yesterday and could not be reached for additional comment. B.D. Colen, Harvard’s senior communications officer for University science, said...
...Catholic convert who grew up in a Hindu household, Jindal has made his name by aligning himself with the cultural conservative wing of the Republican Party, fiercely opposing stem cell research and abortion while favoring the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools. The strategy has helped his standing among the state's conservative Christian voters, and helped him overcome the twin liabilities (in some circles) of intellectualism and ethnicity - traits that arouse suspicion in some of Louisiana's rural stretches, and that many say also helped tip the scales against him in 2003. He has mostly toed the party...