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...also wrote that he expects that stem cell research using human embryos to be “almost universally accepted” in the future...
...Massachusetts Senate, and later the state’s House of Representatives, voted overwhelmingly late last week to permit the use of somatic-cell nuclear transfer, a process by which scientists clone embryos and extract their stem cells for research purposes...
Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney has voiced opposition to embryonic stem cell research, saying that it involves the creation of a life that will ultimately be destroyed...
...Rather than ban cloning for stem cell research, the governor should join the Legislature in banning human reproductive cloning, limiting the length of time that research embryos can be grown in the lab, and restricting the commodification of eggs to prevent the exploitation of women,” Sandel wrote. “Such regulations are the friend, not the foe, of responsible science...
Current state law requires scientists to seek the approval of the local district attorney before conducting research with stem cells...