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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Michigan Nurses Association Backs Embryonic Stem Cell R&D Proposal
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LANSING - Saying the most pro-life stance one could take was to support the potential for new cures, the Michigan Nurses Association announced on Thursday that it was endorsing Proposal 2008-2 that would expand the use of embryonic stem cells for research in the state.
At a press conference, Tom Bissonnette, executive director for the nurses association, said the state's current law "doesn't save a single embryo. It only delays cures."
Nurses "strongly believe we need every weapon" to find cures for a variety of diseases and conditions, and that includes research that involves embryonic stem cells, Bissonnette said.
Joyce Stein, a nurse at the University of Michigan hospitals, said she works with children suffering from congenital heart defects and other conditions and that the state is being left behind in the research that could help those children.
The state doesn't "have the right to deny patients a hope for research and cures," she said.
But Dave Doyle, spokesperson for the opposition group, Michigan Citizens Against Unrestricted Science and Experimentation, said that nurses have to be regulated by the state and the proposal would leave embryonic stem cell researchers unregulated (something supporters dispute).
Saying he understood their hopes that cures could be developed, Doyle said nurses should be equally concerned about the need to regulate the process that could develop those theoretic cures.
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Author: Staff Writer
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