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She is mistaken.
I personally like Tschumper and Ropes. I believe them to be hard-working legislators. There is a learning curve for people starting new positions and mistakes that might have been made are understandable. Let’s overlook issues that Republicans and DFLers squabble about and consider one legislative issue that will come up in the regular session.
Adult stem cell research is and has great value for medical applications. Adult stem cells can be harvested from discarded umbilical cords and adult stem cell research harms no one.
I support this kind of stem cell research. However, embryonic stem cell research and therapeutic cloning use small human beings (or at least that is what they could become) and are morally wrong. Tschumper and Ropes support legislation that is morally wrong.
The University of Minnesota is doing research which destroys human life. Researchers have circumvented current laws banning human cloning by claiming that living cells do not constitute “life,” and by destroying their “experiments” before they could be “born.”
Ropes and Tschumper support legislation that would legalize and expand this experimentation. I don’t care how “partisan” or “bi-partisan” the legislation is — it’s wrong!
I like people, and I don’t want anyone hurt. We need to let our representatives know what is important to us.
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