Despite frequent accusations that John Kerry is a politically inconsistent presidential candidate, there is at least one issue on which he has clearly defined his stance: the future of embryonic stem cell research.
Kerry and his running mate John Edwards say they plan to reverse the Bush administration’s stem cell policies.
“Bush restricts funding for all but a very small number of stem cell lines,” said Kerry spokesperson George Twigg. “John Kerry and John Edwards believe that federal funding should be available for new stem lines as well as the existing ones that are currently authorized.”
The Bush administration, on the other hand, placed a ban on all experimentation with embryos destroyed since June 2001, likening it to the destruction of human life.