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• Editorial: State Should Get Moving on Stem Cell Research
  Source: Chicago Sun Times
  Date: 12/27/06
  
  
• Commentary: Challenges of Stem Cell Research
  Source: Boston Globe
  Date: 12/12/06
  
  
• OpEd: Work Against Hope and See a Backlash
  Source: South Florida Sun Sentinel
  Date: 11/13/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cells and the Suffering of Real People
        Source: The Oregonian
        Date: 11/06/06
  
  
• OpEd: Much Ado About Something
       Source: CQ Weekly
       Date: 10/30/06
  
  
• Editorial: Eggs and Ethics
        Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch
        Date: 9/24/06
  
  
• Editorial: Never Enough on Stem Cells
        Source: Los Angeles Times
        Date: 8/8/06
  
  
• OpEd: Patient Advocacy Improving Prospects for Stem Cell Research
        Source: San Jose Mercury News
        Date: 8/8/06
  
  
• Commentary: Stem Cell Veto Grounded in False Morality
        Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
        Date: 7/31/06
  
  
• Editorial: United Against Bush's Stem Cell Extremism
        Source: The Oregonian
        Date: 7/27/06
  
  
• Editorial: Come Veto or High Water
        Source: Nature
        Date: 7/26/06
  
  
• OpEd: Sting of Stem Cell Vote Unrelieved
       Source: Chicago Sun Times
       Date: 7/24/06
  
  
• OpEd: Vetoing Henry
       Source: The Washington Post
       Date: 7/23/06
  
  
• OpEd: The Passion of the Embryos
       Source: The New York Times
       Date: 7/23/06
  
  
• OpEd: It Was the Veto of a Lifetime
       Source: Newsweek
       Date: 7/23/06
  
  
• OpEd: Bush's Stem Cell Veto - Whom Does It Save?
       Source: Detroit Free Press
       Date: 7/23/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Veto - Thwarting the Public Will
       Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
       Date: 7/21/06
  
  
• Editorial: A First Veto for This?
       Source: Los Angeles Times
       Date: 7/20/06
  
  
• Editorial: The Wrong Choice for Bush's First Veto
       Source: Rocky Mountain News
       Date: 7/20/06
  
  
• Editorial: Needed Research
       Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
       Date: 7/20/06
  
  
• Commentary: Bush to Stem Cell Community - Drop Dead
       Source: MSNBC.com
       Date: 7/19/06
  
  
• Editorial: The Struggle Over Stem Cells
       Source: Chicago Tribune
       Date: 7/19/06
  
  
• Editorial: Bush Readies First Veto, Dashing Hope for Millions
       Source: USA Today
       Date: 7/19/06
  
  
• OpEd by Bill Frist: Meeting Stem Cells' Promise -- Ethically
       Source: The  Washington Post
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Essay: The Case for Macroscopic Humans
       Source: USA Today
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Standing Up for Stem Cell Research
       Source: The New York Times
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Science, Not Politics, for Stem Cells
       Source: Los Angelees Times
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: End Bush's Stem Cell Club
       Source: Boston Globe
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Misguided Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research is Illogical and Prolongs Suffering
       Source: Houston Chronicle
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Yes on Stem Cells
       Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Maybe It's Out of Ink
       Source: Boston Herald
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Loosen Stem Cell Restrictions
       Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem-Cell Stubbornness
       Source: Louisville Courier Journal
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Showdown is About Government's Viability in Research
       Source: Delaware News Journal
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cells
       Source: The Hill
       Date: 7/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: It's Folly for Bush to Veto Popular Stem Cell Funding Bill
       Source: Chicago Sun Times
       Date: 7/17/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem-Cell Legislation - So What's Left to Debate?
       Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
       Date: 7/17/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Showdown
       Source: The Washington Post
       Date: 7/17/06
  
  
• Editorial: Lift Lock on Stem Cells
       Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
       Date: 7/17/06
  
  
• Editorial: Wrong Place for Bush to Use Veto
       Source: Denver Post
       Date: 7/17/06
  
  
• OpEd: "Please Mr. President - Don't Veto This Vital Bill" - Senator Gordon Smith
       Source: The Oregonian
       Date: 7/16/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cells - Round Two: Senate Shouldn't Bow to Veto Threat
       Source: Newsday
       Date: 7/14/06
  
  
• OpEd: Time to Lift Federal Restrictions on Stem-Cell Research
       Source: San Francisco Chronicle
       Date: 7/13/06
  
  
• Editorial: Pro-Life - Stem Cell Cures Offer Hope
       Source:  Charleston Gazette
       Date: 7/13/06
  
  
• OpeEd: Stem Cells Answer Our Prayers
       Source:  Albuquerque Journal
       Date: 7/13/06
  
  
• OpEd: Pass the Stem-Cell Act and Millions Will Have a New Lease on Life
       Source: The Sarasota HeraldTribune
       Date: 7/12/06
  
  
• OpEd: Stem-Cell Funding Bill Has Potential for Cures
       Source: Indianapolis Star
       Date: 7/12/06
  
  
• OpEd: False Dilemma on Stem Cells
       Source: The Washington Post
       Date: 7/7/06
  

• OpEd: Stem Cell Research Policy is Adding Insult to Injury
       Source: Austin American-Statesman
       Date: 6/24/06
  
  
• Editorial: A Start on Research Cloning
       Source: The New York Times
       Date: 6/9/06
  
  
• Editorial: Harvard's Stem Cell Care
       Source: The Boston Globe
       Date: 6/8/06
  
  
• Editorial: Let Stem Cell Vote Move Cures Closer
       Source: Detroit Free Press
       Date: 6/1/06
  
  
• Editorial: Revive the Stem Cell Issue
       Source: The Tennessean
       Date: 5/27/06
  
  
• OpEd: Senate Sitting on Stem Cell Act
       Source: Denver Post
       Date: 5/25/06
  
  
• OpEd: Senate Stall on Stem-Cell Research Prolongs Suffering
       Source: The Louisville Courier Journal
       Date: 5/23/06
  
  
• OpEd: Stem Cell Research - The Forgotten Ones Still Wait, Still Hope
       Source: The Oregonian
       Date: 5/22/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Compromise
       Source: Phildelphia Inquirer
       Date: 5/13/06
  
  
• OpEd: SB 401: Another Obstacle for California's Stem-Cell Program?
       Source: Fremont (California) Argus
       Date: 5/1/06
  
  
• Editorial: Let the Science Begin
       Source: Los Angeles Times
       Date: 4/27/06
  
  
• OpEd: Falling Behind on Stem-Cell Research
       Source: Boston Globe
       Date: 4/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Legislator's Stance Could Hurt Research and State Economy
       Source: LaCrosse (Wisconsin) Tribune
       Date: 4/18/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem-Cell Research Rivalry
       Source: Providence Journal
       Date: 4/08/06
  
  
• Opinion: Stem Cell Milestone
       Source: Baltimore Sun
       Date: 4/02/06
  
  
• Editorial: The States Confront Stem Cells
       Source: The New York Times
       Date: 3/31/06
  
  
• Editorial: Michigan Needs Rational Law for Stem Cell Research
       Source: Detroit News
       Date: 3/27/06
  
  
• Editorial: Illinois Needs to Support Stem Cell Research
       Source: Chicago Sun Times
       Date: 3/22/06
  
  
• Editorial: Silver Lining of Stem-Cell Suits
       Source: San Francisco Chronicle
       Date: 3/13/06
  
  
• Editorial: Don't Stem the Research
       Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
       Date: 3/10/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Advances
       Source: Baltimore Sun
       Date: 3/06/06
  
  
• OpEd: The Stem Cell Initiative, Sabotaged
       Source: Los Angeles Times
       Date: 3/03/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Measure's Limits Clear
       Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
       Date: 3/03/06
  
  
• OpEd: Pass Bill to Take Lead on Stem Cell Research
       Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
       Date: 3/01/06
  
  
• OpEd: All Clones Are Not the Same
       Source: The New York Times
       Date: 2/16/06
  
  
• Setting the Bar High for Stem-Cell Research Standards
       Source: San Francisco Chronicle
       Date: 2/10/06
  
  
• Stem Cell Research on the Rise, Even Lacking Government Funds
       Source: San Francisco Chronicle
       Date: 2/03/06
  
  
• Opinion: Stem Cell Division
       Source:  Baltimore Sun
       Date: 01/11/06
  
  
• Editorial: You Can't Hurry Science
       Source:  Hartford Courant
       Date: 01/11/06
  
  
• Editorial: Writing a New Ending for a Story of Scientific Fraud
       Source:  The Lancet
       Date: 01/06/06
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Decoy
       Source: Baltimore Sun
       Date: 12/27/05
  
  
• OpEd: Don't Tell Me What to Do With My Embryos
       Source: Boston Globe
       Date: 12/04/05
  
  
• OpEd: How Do You 'Adopt' a Frozen Egg?
       Source: Boston Globe
       Date: 12/04/05
  
  
• OpEd: U.S. Must Support, Regulate Stem Cell Research
       Source: Albany Times Union
       Date: 11/20/05
  
  
• OpEd: Stem Cell Support Can't Wait
       Source: Baltimore Sun
       Date: 11/9/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Frontiers
       Source: Chicago Tribune
       Date: 11/7/05
  
  
• Editorial: Cultivating Cures
       Source: Baltimore Sun
       Date: 11/2/05
  
  
• OpEd: Stem Cell Research - Illinois is Forging Ahead of Missouri in Supporting Research
       Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch
       Date: 11/1/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Wordplay
       Source: Los Angeles Times
       Date: 10/24/05
  
  
• Editorial: Progress on Stem Cells, But New Ethical Questions Emerge
       Source: Newsday
       Date: 10/21/05
  
  
• Commentary: Widening Rift
       Source: Newsweek.com
       Date: 10/21/05
  
  
• OpEd: Don't Let Critics Stifle Stem Cell Studies
       Source: San Jose Mercury News
       Date: 10/20/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Imperative
       Source: Boston Globe
       Date: 10/20/05
  
  
• Editorial: South Korea to the Rescue?
       Source: Boston Globe
       Date: 10/20/05
  
  
• OpEd: Don't Let Critics Stifle Stem Cell Studies
       Source: San Jose Mercury News
       Date: 10/19/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Side Shows
       Source: The New York Times
       Date: 10/18/05

•  Editorial: The Greatest Medical Revolution
       Source: The Hill
       Date: 9/14/05
  
  
• Editorial: Embryonic Stem Cell Development(s)
       Source: Nature Cell Biology
       Date: September 2005

• Editorial: Continue Embryonic Research
       Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
       Date: 8/28/05
  
  
• Editorial: Promising U.S. Research Shouldn't Be Nipped in the Bud
       Source: Chicago Sun Times
       Date: 8/26/05
  
  
• Commentary: Dangerous Campaign Against Somatic-Cell Nuclear Transfer
       Source: San Francisco Chronicle
       Date: 8/25/05
  
  
• Editorial: New Advance Doesn't End the Dilemma
       Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
       Date: 8/24/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell End Run?
       Source: Washington Post
       Date: 8/24/05
  
  
• OpEd: Stem Cell Alarmists
       Source: TomPaine.com
       Date: 8/16/05
  
  
• Editorial: Dodging and Weaving
       Source: Baltimore Sun
       Date: 8/14/05
  
  
• American Scientific Ingenuity Shackled by the Religious Right
       Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
       Date: 8/8/05
  
  
• OpEd: Let's All Hug Bill Frist
       Source: Los Angeles Times
       Date: 8/4/05
  
  
• Editorial: Frist, Coleman Lend Stem Cell Support
       Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
       Date: 8/3/05
  
  
• Editorial: Dr. Frist's Welcome Turnabout
       Source: The Oregonian
       Date: 8/3/05
  
  
• Editorial: A Break with the President
       Source: Toledo Blade
       Date: 8/3/05
  
  
• Editorial: Progress on Stem Cells - Frist's Position Could Help Lead to Cures
       Source: Dallas Morning News
       Date: 8/2/05
  
  
• Editorial: Follow Doctor's Orders
       Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
       Date: 8/2/05
  
  
• Editorial: Frist's Stance Still Fuzzy
       Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
       Date: 8/2/05
  
  
• Editorial: Dr. Frist Steps Forward
       Source: Newsday
       Date: 8/1/05
  
  
• Editorial: The Doctor is... In
       Source: Los Angeles Times
       Date: 8/1/05
  
  
• Editorial: Saving Lives: Frist Should Allow Debate on House Stem Cell Bill
       Source: Salt Lake City Tribune
       Date: 7/25/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stealth Plan Could Stymie the Senate on Stem Cells
       Source: The Boston Globe
       Date: 7/19/05
  
  
• Editorial: Will Frist Save Lives or Please Right Wing in Stem Cell Fight?
       Source: Roll Call
       Date: 7/18/05
  
  
• Editorial: Distraction
       Source: The Baltimore Sun
       Date: 7/17/05
  
  
• Editorial: Stem Cell Research: In Illinois, All Bets Are On
       Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch
       Date: 7/17/05
  
  
• Editorial: Clarity in the Stem Cell Debate
       Source: Chicago Tribune
       Date: 7/17/2005

Letters to the Editor Archive

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  Date: 7/24/2005
  
  

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