Brownback Splits the Difference On Stem Cell Research

NY Times ^ | July 9, 2007 | Alex Wayne, CQ Staff

[monomaniac]

Sen. Sam Brownback recently voted in committee against the fiscal 2008 spending bill for Labor, Health and Education because it includes a provision that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Brownback, R-Kan., a conservative running for president, opposes the research on moral grounds because it entails the destruction of human embryos. But he did get a $500,000 earmark added to the bill (S 1710) for the Midwest Institute for Comparative Stem Cell Biology. ...

[Plutarch]

AKA Senator Switchback.

[sittnick]

The institute, part of Kansas State University, conducts research using stem cells derived from non-controversial sources, primarily human and animal umbilical cords.

No problem with that. Very misleading headline. This is not "splitting the difference."

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

True, its a difference unsplit.

[Catholic Iowan]

You need to study the issue of stem cell research a bit more. The type of stem cell research that Sen. Brownback is supporting does not result in the destruction of a human life. No switchback or flip-flop here.