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Restrictions on Stem-Cell Research Limit Discovery

By Sen. Edward Kennedy
Special to Roll Call
July 11, 2005, 3:03 p.m.

I wish all my colleagues in Congress could have heard the eloquent words of Robert Klein at a bipartisan press conference on stem-cell research in the Senate on June 29. Mr. Klein, a 36 year old from Falmouth, Mass., suffered a serious spinal cord injury five years ago, and has been confined to a wheelchair since then.

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Restrictions on Stem-Cell Research Limit Discovery

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