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Article: NSW: Church pledges $50,000 for adult stem cell research
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2002
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NSW: Church pledges $50,000 for adult stem cell research
By Tracey Ferrier
SYDNEY, April 9 AAP - The Catholic Church today offered to co-fund
research on the
use of adult stem cells as part of its ongoing campaign against embryonic
stem cell research.
The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney George Pell said the church would
be prepared to
contribute $50,000 if the federal and NSW governments committed "significant
money" for
adult stem cell research.
He said the Council of Australian Government's decision to permit
stem cell research
on surplus human embryos not used in the IVF program was only encouraging
a misdirection
of research funding.
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