Program To Fund Human Cloning

A pro-life law firm that was behind the lawsuit against California's stem cell research agency for allegedly violating various state laws says the program is now backing human cloning. The Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF) says the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is going further than just funding stem cells. California voters created CIRM after approving Proposition 71, which authorized $3 billion in state bond revenue for stem cell research programs. The law firm is speaking out because CIRM has announced it will begin selling the bonds to finance more research and the firm wants Californians to know where there money will go. CIRM created a furor when it initially supported only embryonic stem cell studies, which involve the destruction of human life. LLDF told LifeNews.com that California residents now have another reason to be upset at the state panel. “What most people may not be aware of is the fact that researchers in California have actually been given the 'green light' to clone living human embryos for the purpose of harvesting their embryonic stem cells,” the group's director Dana Cody said.