Stem Cell Measure Will Remain on New Jersey Ballot

A New Jersey judge ruled Monday that a ballot measure authorizing the state to borrow $450 million to fund stem cell research would remain on the November ballot, despite the objections of anti-abortion activists. The measure would allow the state to use money to fund federally restricted embryonic stem cell research as well as research on adult stem cells for ten years.

The New Jersey Right to Life (NJRTL) claims that the wording of the measure fails to disclose that it will "finance the creation, experimentation and then destruction of cloned human beings through the entire period of normal gestation." But Superior Court Judge Neil H. Shuster ruled that the ballot question was "fair, balanced, and neutral" and that legislation authorizing the referendum specifically prohibits human cloning.
 
Stem Cell Measure Will Remain on New Jersey Ballot
 (feminist.org)