Florida Group: No Taxpayer $ for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
By Life News,
LifeNews.com
| 09. 28. 2005
Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- While advocates of embryonic stem cell research are pushing a ballot proposal to spend state funds on the destructive research, another organization is sponsoring a competing initiative to ensure that no taxpayer funds are used on the unproven science. They hope to secure a vote on their proposal on the November 2006 ballot.
Citizens for Science and Ethics is a new group that says research that involves the destruction of human life should never be funded with state money.
The organization is backing a state constitutional amendment saying, "No revenue of the state shall be spent on experimentation that involves the destruction of a live human embryo."
Susan Cutaia, a Boca mortgage broker who is the group's founder, says private research firms should pay for embryonic stem cell research, which has yet to cure a single patient, not taxpayers.
"We're all referring to it as human embryo, so therefore it is a segment of the human population," Cutaia told WPTV.
"Granted, [an embryo] is minuscule. But it's still human life," she explained. "As human life, are...
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