Issue Position: Making Health Care More Affordable - Stem Cell Research

Issue Position

Issue Position: Making Health Care More Affordable - Stem Cell Research

Due to the ability of stem cells to transform into other cell types, stem cell research and study has the potential of finding ways to repair the damaging side effects of various medical treatments, produce great amounts of one cell type to test new drugs, develop treatments for diseases like Parkinson's and diabetes through transplant, and provide information about the causes and origins of birth defects and abnormalities. Unfortunately, many more years of biological and clinical research are needed before the possibility of this potential can be realized.

I have consistently supported expanding stem cell research because I believe that the potential human health and scientific benefits of stem cell research are staggering in their promise. Federal support of stem cell research will allow American scientists to harness this groundbreaking technology and save many lives and ensure that human cloning is banned. In addition, the oversight which will come with broad federal support will result in better and more ethically controlled research in the field than if funding was from private sources alone.

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