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10 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 1 (2009)

handle is hein.journals/mipr10 and id is 1 raw text is: Zach W. Hall, Stem Cell Research in California: The Intersection of Science, Politics, Culture, and Law. 10(1) MINN. J.L. ScI. & TECH.EI-E18 (2008). Stem Cell Research in California: The Intersection of Science, Politics, Culture, and Law Zach W. Hall* In November 2004 the voters of California passed Proposition 71 (the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Bond Act), which authorized the expenditure of $3 billion for stem cell research raised through the issuance of state bonds.' The passage of Proposition 71 marked a new phase in American biomedical research. For the first time, a state undertook to finance, through bonds, a large-scale biomedical research project in a new and untested area. Alive with scientific and medical possibility, stem cell research is nevertheless a new field whose effective application to human disease remains to be demonstrated. The most promising facet of the new technology involves human embryonic stem cells, whose use in the United States is embroiled in ethical and political controversy rooted in the sensitive issue of abortion.2 Because of the controversy, the federal government has declined to support this research except on a limited basis,3 leaving California and other states to fill the gap. Large, state-supported biomedical research projects offer an opportunity to develop new structures for funding biomedical science, but they also pose new challenges as inexperienced state governments struggle to establish © 2008 Zach W. Hall. * Zach Hall, Ph.D., is the Founder and former President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). He was the University of Minnesota's Oscar M. Ruebahusen Visiting Professor in Bioethics in 2007. This Visiting Professorship was made possible by funding from The Greenwall Foundation, and was sponsored in part by the University of Minnesota's Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, Center for Bioethics, and the Mayo Clinic. Professor Hall's lecture on Stem Cell Research: At the Intersection of Science, Politics, Law, and Culture is available at https://umconnect.umn.edu/p49863722. 1. California Stem Cell Research and Cures Bond Act of 2004, CAL. HEALTH & SAFETY CODE § 125291.30 (West 2004). 2. See generally D.C. Wertz, Embryo and Stem Cell Research in the United States: History and Politics, 9 GENE THERAPY 674 (2002). 3. Press Release, White House Fact Sheet: Embryonic Stem Cell Research (Aug. 9, 2001), http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/ 08/20010809-1.html; see also Exec. Order No. 13,435, 72 Fed. Reg. 34,591 (June 22, 2007).

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