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Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen
By James Sverapa IVCOHEN TO BUSH: GET OUT OF THE WAY
Assemblyman Assails President for Impeding Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(ROSELLE) - Assembly Deputy Speaker Neil M. Cohen today called on President Bush to end his senseless war against embryonic stem cell research and unshackle America's scientific community so it can lead the world in finding cures to some of humanity's most sinister diseases and afflictions.News from
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January 11, 2007
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James Sverapa IV
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COHEN TO BUSH: GET OUT OF THE WAY
Assemblyman Assails President for Impeding Embryonic Stem Cell Research
(ROSELLE) - Assembly Deputy Speaker Neil M. Cohen today called on President Bush to end his senseless war against embryonic stem cell research and unshackle America's scientific community so it can lead the world in finding cures to some of humanity's most sinister diseases and afflictions.
Cohen (D-Union), a leading proponent of stem cell research in the New Jersey Legislature, sponsored the 2004 law that authorized embryonic and adult stem cell research and the state law earmarking $270 million to build stem cell and biomedical research centers throughout New Jersey.
With the United States House of Representatives poised today to pass legislation allowing federal funding of all types of stem cell research and newspapers reporting efforts by the Bush administration to influence members to vote against the measure, as well as President Bush's expected commitment to again use his veto power to block the legislation, Cohen issued the following statement:
"President Bush's strategy of staying the course in opposition to stem cell research is nothing short of an act of cruelty.
"Americans suffering from incurable diseases and untreatable injuries deserve every opportunity to be made whole again. Scientific discovery should not beheld hostage by the ideological hang-ups of a select few.
"There is no place for politics in scientific research. For the sake of all humankind, President Bush should get out of the way on the stem cell research issue."
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