DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- Gov. Chet Culver says if he wins a second term, he'll push to expand stem cell research and ensure new health insurance programs for low-income children and others are maintained.
Speaking Thursday at a Statehouse news conference with Victoria Kennedy, the widow of former Sen. Edward Kennedy, Culver argued his views on stem cell research and health care for low-income Iowans were markedly different from Republican challenger Terry Branstad's stands.
Stem cells are important to researchers because they can turn into any tissue of the body. Some object to the research because human embryos are destroyed when stem cells are extracted.
Branstad spokesman Tim Albrecht says Branstad supports stem-cell research but believes "an ethical boundary should be drawn."
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