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...bill introduced last month by Senate President Robert Travaglini would clarify existing state law and make stem cell research explicitly legal in Massachusetts...
Democrats have emphasized the importance of the legislation. Travaglini has said, through a spokeswoman, that the bill is “about saving lives, first and foremost...
...Travaglini has also said he does not believe that future generations should have to suffer from diseases their grandparents faced if technology exists to prevent these diseases...
...bill, at present, is not guaranteed passage. Governor W. Mitt Romney sent a letter to Travaglini in early February citing moral justifications for his opposition to the creation of new embryos for research purposes. Romney wrote that “respect for human life is a fundamental element of civilized society” and that “lofty goals do not justify the creation of life for experimentation and destruction...
Brock estimated that currently about 400,000 extra cells are available from in vitro experiments. Romney also proposed that none of those stem cells be used without express permission from the donors in his letter to Travaglini yesterday...