Pawlenty’s Stem Cell Stance Tests U of M Leaders
Posted by Andy on February 8th, 2007
The U of M is stuck between a rock and a funding source.
The debate over stem cells is putting the University of Minnesota in an uneasy spot, forcing leaders to navigate between Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s ethical reservations and eagerness among Democrats to expand a promising field of study.
What promise? What has been accomplished through all the privately funded research? Correct me if I am wrong, there is nothing out there right now stopping people like George Clooney and George Soros from spending their massive liberal wealth on this type of research right now. They just want to take your money to pay for it.
Not everyone thinks tax payers should pay to perform experiments with fetal tissue. There is research on non-fetal/embryonic tissue that is reportedly much more promising. The DFL is racing to pass all their legislation this session because they know they got away with one in 2006, and that voters will not return them to St. Paul again with the radical liberal policies that they are passing this time around.
You will see more radical policies floated in St. Paul this year than ever before. Why just this year? Because the DFL knows that they are overreaching, and hope to the electoral gods that voters will forget next year come election time.
Gov. Pawlenty is going to be rock solid on this issue, and he does deserve credit for it.
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