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Abortion Opponents Hope Republicans Will Defend Limits on Stem Cell Research

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A speech by the late President Ronald Reagan’s son touting the medical promise of stem cell research is winning praise from researchers at UW Madison.But abortion opponents are counting on Republicans to use their convention in August to defend the current limits on federal funding for research that uses discarded embryos.Gil Halsted has more…

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