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Financing, not ethics, causing some to take closer looks
Some cracks are forming in what had appeared to be a solid base of support among progressives and the medical establishment for Prop. 71, the $6 billion California stem-cell initiative.
As the election approaches, the campaign has largely turned away from the ethical matters that have dominated the stem-cell debate nationally. Many of the most vocal critics of Prop. 71 say they are in favor of stem-cell research but oppose the public financing and oversight provisions in the measure.
Even as supporters were beginning a statewide advertising campaign, one of the state's leading health care unions, the 58,000-member California Nurses Association, came out against the proposition, arguing that it would saddle the state with debt and allow billions of dollars in research grants to be doled out without adequate public supervision.
Union leaders and other participants in a newly formed "Pro-Choice Alliance Against Prop. 71" held a press conference Wednesday in Sacramento to press the case that this was no longer a conflict between the religious right and the pro-choice left....
Some cracks are forming in what had appeared to be a solid base of support among progressives and the medical establishment for Prop. 71, the $6 billion California stem-cell initiative.
As the election approaches, the campaign has largely turned away from the ethical matters that have dominated the stem-cell debate nationally. Many of the most vocal critics of Prop. 71 say they are in favor of stem-cell research but oppose the public financing and oversight provisions in the measure.
Even as supporters were beginning a statewide advertising campaign, one of the state's leading health care unions, the 58,000-member California Nurses Association, came out against the proposition, arguing that it would saddle the state with debt and allow billions of dollars in research grants to be doled out without adequate public supervision.
Union leaders and other participants in a newly formed "Pro-Choice Alliance Against Prop. 71" held a press conference Wednesday in Sacramento to press the case that this was no longer a conflict between the religious right and the pro-choice left....