Posted on 07/28/2007 5:29:39 PM PDT by monomaniac
N.J. Voters Will Decide Stem-Cell Issue
New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed legislation Thursday to let voters decide on a 10-year, $450 million plan to use taxpayer money to fund stem-cell research, including destructive embryonic stem-cell research.
Corzine was joined by political leaders, scientists and rehabilitation experts, who hailed the referendum, The (Newark) Star-Ledger reports.
Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life, said: "Our lawyers are looking very closely at possible deceptions in the ballot language, especially the fact that this is about taxpayer-funded human cloning. … This boondoggle will add $37 billion to our state debt."
So far not a single embryonic stem-cell has done anything for anybody.
Not likely to do so anyway. Seems that to use them you have to turn them into adult stem-cells.
We got adult stem-cells coming out our ears (and everywhere else), and they do stuff.
In the 1830s/40s Canals were all the rage in the then partially settled Ohio Valley. Canal building bankrupt those states and forced them to write entirely new constitutions with re-constituted governments. This is something long overdue for New Jersey, but after they've run the debt up $40 billion to $95 billion, they may decide to get a handle on their runaway government.
I just hope none of them want to move here.
The most egregious thing about it is how it is money FORCED from taxpayers into the “research”. Imagine if Californians or NJers were forced into “global warming research” or “recycling research” or “anti-Religious Right research”. It forcing the average joe to pay for liberal scientists to promote leftist nonsense.
” This is something long overdue for New Jersey, but after they’ve run the debt up $40 billion to $95 billion, they may decide to get a handle on their runaway government.”
Jersey will just raise taxes and blame Whitman for it.
And the sheeple will go Bahhhhhhhh.
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