Massachusetts floats $1 billion stem cell research plan
Massachusetts’ governor proposed on Tuesday
to spend $1 billion on biotechnology over 10 years.
Massachusetts’ governor proposed on Tuesday to spend $1 billion on biotechnology over 10 years, aiming to fill a federal funding shortfall caused by the Bush administration’s opposition to embryonic stem-cell research.
Gov. Deval Patrick said the money would support research grants and strengthen facilities used by both public and private scientists.
Massachusetts has some advantages. It is already a major medical cluster with two world-leading universities, four medical schools, 20 teaching hospitals and over 500 life-science companies.
The proposal requires legislative approval, but leaders of the state House of Representatives and Senate backed a 2005 bill encouraging stem-cell research, which was opposed by former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who is now a presidential candidate.
The Mass Legislature passed the 2005 bill over Romney’s veto; but, he used one of the same deceits so popular with our moral leader in the White House - and drafted an executive order for the state Public Health Council that effectively negated the legislation.
Do any of these creeps ever obey the law?
Posted: Wed - May 9, 2007 at 07:31 AM