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What is Ron Paul's stance on stem cell research?

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Ron Paul is supportive of non-embryonic stem cell research, however he's against abortion and the cultivation of embryonic stem-cells (except in circumstances where the death of the fetus is unavoidable). read more

Ron Paul is supportive of non-embryonic stem cell research, however he's against abortion and the cultivation of embryonic stem-cells (except in circumstances where the death of the fetus is unavoidable). He's also against federally funding such research, as he wishes to leave this decision up to the states. From an interview taken in 2007. read more

by Ron Paul Medical and scientific ethics issues are in the news again, as Congress narrowly passed a bill last week that funds controversial embryonic stem cell research. read more

Paul supports stem-cell research generically, as evidenced by his sponsoring the Cures Can Be Found Act of 2005 (H.R. 3334), a bill "to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credits against income tax for qualified stem cell research, the storage of qualified stem cells, and the donation of umbilical cord blood." read more