Should states welcome privately funded researchers who want to do stem cell research beyond President Bush’s stem cell restrictions?
Should the states help fund the research?
Should the states help find private funding for the research?
My opinion is yes, but I have no problem with stem cell research at any level. Private, state, federal funding, I don’t care, as long as it gets done so we can see what is possible.
If we don’t do the research somone else will.
There are a lot of countries out there with different ethical standards and/or secret groups who would perform such research knowing it has great potential for profit.
1.) Yes.
2.) Yes, if they want to.
3.) Not necessarily, the kind of private funding we are talking about hardly needs the machinery of the state to get where it wants to go.
Stem cell research should move forward by any means necessary. This should include removing governmental impediments to the process. In 2004.
So I say yes on all counts.
The only good news on the matter of governmental regulations of stem cell research is that the Senate’s version of the cloning bill would remove the provision that no technologies developed by cloning cells could be imported into the US.
As I do not believe that stem cell reseach harms anyone, I’d like to see the gov’t (at all levels) just get out of the way. No help, no hinderance.
It can’t happen. As long as the states receive federal funding, they can not fund something that is expressly forbidden by the feds.