State Digest: a Call to Lift a Ban on Research Cloning, and Other News From the States

By SARA HEBEL

REVERSING A STEM-CELL BAN: Thomas J. Vilsack, Iowa's governor, has reversed his stand on therapeutic cloning, the process of creating stem cells for research from cloned human embryos. Governor Vilsack, a Democrat, now advocates repealing a ban on such research that he signed in 2002. The governor,...