Stem cell proposal likely headed for ballot
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Lansing State Journal: The Stem Cell Ballot Question Committee will submit between 500,000 and 550,000 signatures on Monday's deadline, well over the 380,000 needed to put the issue before voters, campaign director Mark Burton said Wednesday. If approved, the proposal would lift Michigan's 30-year-old ban on scientific research that results in the destruction of an embryo, a ban blamed by some for impeding the development of stem-cell research in the state. The amendment authorizes research using embryos created for use in fertility treatment but not needed to produce a pregnancy and likely to be discarded.
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