http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/02/27/we-hear-2/ Fresh Political Pickins From The Peach State Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:03:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/02/27/we-hear-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6230 Peach Pundit » Did Senator Adelman Read the Legislation? Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:51:38 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=832#comment-6230 [...] So the bill mentions “embryonic [...] So the bill mentions “embryonic

]]> http://www.peachpundit.com/2006/02/27/we-hear-2/comment-page-1/#comment-6228 Radical Georgia Moderate » Stem cell research bank Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:52:16 +0000 http://www.peachpundit.com/?p=832#comment-6228 [...] This is not the newest Georgia Legislature news, but well worth mentioning. Erick Erickson at Peach Pundit disingenuously claimed a few days ago that the Republican version of the stem cell research bill sidesteps controversy by avoiding embryonic stem cell research altogether, focusing just on adult stem cell research. However, as Senator David Adelman pointed out in his AJC editorial yesterday, the Republican bill would actually criminalize embyonic stem cell research. A competing bill was introduced last week that would take the extraordinary step of criminalizing research on new embryonic stem cell lines. This bill, SB 596, is tricky. It looks a lot like my bill. Its author gave it a confusingly similar name and copied my bill verbatim in many places. But, in stark contrast to my bill, SB 596 criminalizes embryonic stem cell research, making it a felony, requiring up to a 10-year prison sentence and imposing a $100,000 fine on researchers who work on new stem cell lines. [...] [...] This is not the newest Georgia Legislature news, but well worth mentioning. Erick Erickson at Peach Pundit disingenuously claimed a few days ago that the Republican version of the stem cell research bill sidesteps controversy by avoiding embryonic stem cell research altogether, focusing just on adult stem cell research. However, as Senator David Adelman pointed out in his AJC editorial yesterday, the Republican bill would actually criminalize embyonic stem cell research. A competing bill was introduced last week that would take the extraordinary step of criminalizing research on new embryonic stem cell lines. This bill, SB 596, is tricky. It looks a lot like my bill. Its author gave it a confusingly similar name and copied my bill verbatim in many places. But, in stark contrast to my bill, SB 596 criminalizes embryonic stem cell research, making it a felony, requiring up to a 10-year prison sentence and imposing a $100,000 fine on researchers who work on new stem cell lines. [...]

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