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STEM CELL CHAMPION STEPS DOWN: new leadership for California program By Don C. Reed I am still a little in shock. On June 23rd,  Bob Klein resigned the leadership of the California stem cell program—which he began.    His initiative, Prop 71, the California Stem Cells for Research and Cures Act, became the California Institute [...]

 Would you make one phone call if it might bring cure to paralysis?  Right now, AB 190, the bill to restore funding to the Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury research Act, hangs in the balance. Please call one of the below, depending on your political party. You might make the difference between success and failure. [...]

Despite Governor Rick Snyder saying he would not enforce language in the higher education budget requiring universities to report on their embryonic stem cell research , Attorney General Bill Schuette says such language is constitutional and … View post: Gongwer News Highlights, June 22, 2011 Advance Stem Cell Research

Jack Milquetoast? ~ ITEM: What have we learned about Layton from all of this: “Frankly, I’d rather have a Prime Minister who isn’t stupid and got a hand job than one who is stupid and didn’t. In either case, Mr. Layton has babbled himself into a position where he would have us believe he was [...]

What does the Latino community actually think about abortion? Do we think that Latina wombs really are the most dangerous place for our children? Of course not. And thanks to a recent report from California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, we have the data to prove it. Let’s step back for a second. Who are the [...]

CANADIAN  DELIGHTS—a Patient Advocate’s Perspective on the 9th Annual International Society of Stem Cell Research Conference By Don C. Reed “You’ve got to see Niagara Falls while you’re here,” said my flight mate, “It is gorgeous from the Canadian side.” “I couldn’t without my wife Gloria,” I said, “It is on our must-do-together list—plus I [...]

A strongly worded letter from California state treasurer Bill Lockyer concerning this week’s election of a new chairman of the state’s billion stem cell agency could be triggering a bit of blowback for the candidate backed by Lockyer. The letter advised all five of Lockyer’s appointees that he is a vigorous supporter of Jonathan Thomas, [...]

In Kubala v. Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan, 2011 Conn. Super. LEXIS 1260 (CT Super. Ct., May 20, 2011), a Connecticut state trial court dismissed a lawsuit brought against a Catholic priest, his church and the Hartford Diocese seeking damages for injuries plaintiff received when, during a Catholic Charismatic Renewal healing service, she was physically injured. [...]

Once again the federal government is harming women and girls in the District of Columbia. Congress is including a ban on allowing DC to use it’s own money to have DC Medicaid cover the cost of an abortion procedure. The passage of this oppressive and discriminatory legislation means that many DC women, girls, and their [...]

You may have heard about a few new anti-choice movies that will likely not be coming to a theater near you any time soon. The first to hit the internet was “Life Zone,” a psychological thriller about three kidnapped pregnant women held against their will. The trailer brims with local commercial-level line readings. But it [...]