Gov. Jim Doyle, speaking today in Washington, D.C., said states cannot be expected to make up for federal inaction on human embryonic stem cell research.
He said states are losing time and wasting money struggling with the situation left by President Bush’s veto of the bill that would have lifted the 5-year-old federal ban on funding new human embryonic stem cell lines.
Doyle appeared this morning with U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, upon the release of the center’s report on stem cell research.