{"id":1063138,"date":"2011-12-11T16:54:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/klein-moral-mandates-and-stem-cells\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T20:27:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T00:27:20","slug":"klein-moral-mandates-and-stem-cells-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/klein-moral-mandates-and-stem-cells-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Klein, Moral Mandates and Stem Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/F-nFT36T95VV47QcNpMKBD01tcE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/85ed3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/F-nFT36T95VV47QcNpMKBD01tcE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/85ed3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>Just a few days ago, the <b>California Stem Cell Report<\/b> carried an item about the state's stem cell agency and its supporters' mantra that the agency has a mandate from voters albeit one that is seven years old.  <\/p><p>We mentioned  that <b>Robert Klein<\/b>, the former chairman of the agency and head of the 2004 ballot campaign that launched <b>CIRM<\/b>, is one of those fond of citing voter mandates with great regularity. <\/p><p>Indeed, Klein found shelter again this week under a voter mandate, but this time it was a moral one. <\/p><p>Klein popped up in <a href=\"http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/san-jose-mercury-news-california-stem.html\">a San Jose Mercury story<\/a> about the status of the stem cell agency. Writer <b>Steve Johnson<\/b> said that Klein declared that he quit as chairman last June in part because he wants to raise money for a campaign for another multibillion bond measure for CIRM. Johnson quoted Klein as saying,<\/p><blockquote><p>\"It would be a huge failing in meeting our moral mandate\" to let CIRM die. \"We can't afford to break the momentum.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><p>As we noted on Dec. 6, <a href=\"http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/california-stem-cell-pr-and-spongy.html\">mandates come and go<\/a>, as another multibillion California bond program, high speed rail, has discovered.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/51084_10000891-218416277268153608?l=californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/51084_7tVlK9HWqpM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss\">http:\/\/californiastemcellreport.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few days ago, the California Stem Cell Report carried an item about the state's stem cell agency and its supporters' mantra that the agency has a mandate from voters albeit one that is seven years old. We mentioned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/stem-cell-therapy\/klein-moral-mandates-and-stem-cells-2.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1246878],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-cell-therapy","category-stem-cells"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}