Stem Cell Q & A

Question: Who controls where the $3 billion in taxpayer money goes?

Answer: An unelected committee without accountability.

Question: Did Prop 71 insure that the taxpayers receive a fair financial return on its investment?

Answer: The initiative says only that the committee will adopt policiesto balance financial returns to the state without any amounts orpercentages. With their money at stake, the people of California deserve appropriate royalties from their investment.

Question: What does the Prop 71 committee have to disclose to the people?

Answer: Whatever they want to - the initiative left the adoption of economic-disclosure requirements in the hands of the Prop 71 committee.
They are exempt form conflict of interest disclosure requirements.

Question: Are the meetings of the Prop 71 working groups open to the public and the press?

Answer: No, the initiative also exempted them from California's open-meetings law.

Question: Can women be exploited by embryonic stem cell research?

Answer: Yes - the initiative pre-empted important patient protections that could prohibit financial or other inducements to encourage women to generate eggs solely for the purpose of donating them to research.

Question: In over 20 years of embryonic stem cell research how many human cures have been produced?

Answer: ZERO. All its yielded is tumors, rejection, and mutations. (Contrast over 300,000 cures with adult stem cell research)

Question: Is the Prop 71 money going to used for CLONING?

Answer: Thats what it says. Somatic cell nuclear transfer. It is a scientific term for CLONING.